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Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

William Morris Hunt

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William Morris Hunt
Age: 55 †
Born: 1824
Born: March 31
Died: 1879
Died: September 8
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Brattleboro
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W. M. Hunt
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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! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure you can't patch parts together. Simple lines then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?
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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!
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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!
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Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!
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Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
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The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
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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 be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
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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.
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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.
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Inspiration is nothing without work.
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Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be the same. If it be not, ask, 'What is the difference?
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Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.
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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.
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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!
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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 otherwise, about sitting.
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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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