William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chasewas an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth1 November 1849
CountryUnited States of America
color light trying
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.
thinking trying done
Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.
trying paint distinguished
Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
design
Design is everything.
two paint spoil
It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.
views criticism association
Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.
believe sky landscape
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
education school boys
I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].
europe heaven
My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.
ambition today succeed
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
lying canvas imagine
Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.
integrity eye race
Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.
four aging life-is
Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.