William Morris Hunt Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von William Morris Hunt:

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.

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.

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!

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.

William Morris Hunt

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

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

William Morris Hunt

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

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.

William Morris Hunt

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

William Morris Hunt

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

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!

William Morris Hunt

It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain!

William Morris Hunt

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.

William Morris Hunt

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

William Morris Hunt

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

William Morris Hunt