William Morris Hunt

Notable Quotes



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 can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

From William Morris Hunt

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 criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!

From William Morris Hunt

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 as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!

From William Morris Hunt

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

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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 know that is not so.

From William Morris Hunt

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

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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 going there, sure.

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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 painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

From William Morris Hunt

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 must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

From William Morris Hunt

I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

From William Morris Hunt

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