William Morris Hunt Quotes

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Everything I do, it's a bit painterly. I like being surrounded by objects, mostly on paper. I like the images. I like the painting. I like good photography. It's something that makes me an emotional connection, and I feel comfortable around it.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

I try and take the photographs and paintings and make them real. And the real video we treat as paintings. We flip the reality.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

I'm not going to sit for some painting. That's so 1800s. I'm not doing that.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.