Art Quote by William Morris Hunt Download Open image “The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.” — William Morris Hunt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Goals Missions Nature
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of. — Henry James Copy Share Image
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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. — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture. — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis. — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
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… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
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… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists,… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting. — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
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!… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
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… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
