William Morris Hunt Quotes

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

First thought, best thought.