"The mission of art is to represent nature……" — William Morris Hunt
"The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her."
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William Morris Hunt
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33 Quotes by William Morris Hunt
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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…
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Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
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It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is…
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The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in…
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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I…
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Inspiration is nothing without work.
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I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or…
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Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much…
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Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
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There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're…
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You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.
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Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a…
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