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“The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.”

Quote by E. J. Hughes

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E. J. Hughes was a renowned British artist known for his unique style and exquisite technique. His works, primarily depicting the sea and fishing villages, are filled with poetic and romantic elements. Born on February 17, 1913, he passed away on January 5, 2007. more

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“It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.”

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“Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.”

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“I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.”

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“My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.”

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“One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.”

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“I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.”

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“Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.”

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“The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.”

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Book:Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989

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“Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.”

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“I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I've accomplished something useful.”

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