painting

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

painter

sculptor

graphic artist

lithographer

drawer

cause of death

suicide

is tasked to represent nature not to imitate her.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

is the only universal language, capable of describing every thing which can be seen, and suggesting every emotion which can be felt.

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. William Morris Hunt

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William Morris Hunt