William Morris Hunt Quotes

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• Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every…
• Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
• It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
• The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
• The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice.…
• You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I…
• Inspiration is nothing without work.
• I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
• Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a…
• Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
• There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.
• You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.
• Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue…
• Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one…
• How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make…
• I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain…
• It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is…
• Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the…
• There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly…
• What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of…

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