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

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

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

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I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: March 31st, 1824

Died: September 8th, 1879

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