Chase Merritt Quotes & Sayings

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished. — William Merritt Chase

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]. — William Merritt Chase

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone. — Caroline Myss

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. — William Merritt Chase

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it. — William Merritt Chase

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. — William Merritt Chase

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven. — William Merritt Chase

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow. — William Merritt Chase

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. — William Merritt Chase

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. — William Merritt Chase

Design is everything. — William Merritt Chase

Prevent your day at morning. — Ben Jonson

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear. — William Merritt Chase

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 nature's own hues and tints. — William Merritt Chase

He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature? — Rutherford B. Hayes

The thing about dead people ... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is ... complicated, I guess. — John Green

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. — William Merritt Chase

Or, suppose you want to motivate your managers to ship products on time, so you conspicuously promote each manager whose product goes out the door on schedule. All goes as planned until the situation arises in which one of your managers has a project where the testers are reporting numerous problems. Because managers who have shipped products on time have been promoted, this manager thinks, I want that promotion so I need to ship this on time, but those bug reports are getting in the way. I know what I'll do! I'll put the testers on another project until the developers have a chance to catch up. — Gerald M. Weinberg

Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me. — Cassandra Clare