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W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais

Book by William Morris Hunt · 5 quotes · Ifs, Should, World

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W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais Quotes

“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!”

“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.”