Quotes by William Hunt

• I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
• There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
• When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
• 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.
• The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
• It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
• Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
• You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.