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William Morris Hunt
American
March 31, 1824
Artist
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
William Morris Hunt
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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 the basis.
William Morris Hunt
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What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!
William Morris Hunt
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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.
William Morris Hunt
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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.
William Morris Hunt
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Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.
William Morris Hunt
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