You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

- William Morris Hunt

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

- William Morris Hunt

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. Ther…

- William Morris Hunt

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. …

- William Morris Hunt

Inspiration is nothing without work.

- William Morris Hunt

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 …

- William Morris Hunt

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 o…

- William Morris Hunt

Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!

- 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 …

- William Morris Hunt