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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.

E. J. Hughes

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E. J. Hughes
Age: 94 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 1
Died: 2007
Died: January 12
Artist
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City of North Vancouver
Edward John Hughes
Nature
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Preliminary
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I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
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I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.
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The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.
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I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.
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It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.
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I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.
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It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
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As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.
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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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Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.
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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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One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.
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It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.
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Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.
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Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.
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It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.
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It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.
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I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.
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