Old Painters Quotes by William Morris Hunt

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William Morris Hunt has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,…
• 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…
• You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on…
• 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…
• Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line…
• 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,…
• You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

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