“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.” MenArtBookLanguageFeltEmotionCreationPaintingUniversalLastingMonumentPicture BooksUniversal LanguageBabyhood Author: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!” IfsMenWantShouldFirstsRealityForceShouldersImpressVitality Book:W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais Source: W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais
“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!” MenChildrenBreakWifeBreadSoilSweatStubbornBrows Author:William Morris Hunt
