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Work Quotes by William Morris Hunt
- Inspiration is nothing without work.
- 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…
- 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…
- Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.
- Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your…
- There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add…
- When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach