William Morris Hunt Quotes

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

I love to draw, although I wish I was better at it.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like it was what I was supposed to do - but in reality I don't know that I ever had the skill to make it a profession.

I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

Just because you have developed the craft on your instrument doesn't mean that you don't have the ability to be expressive emotionally on that instrument, or vice versa.

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.

I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person.

It's very rare I'll watch anything I'm a part of and think, 'I wouldn't change a thing.'

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.