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 Seized You By The Shoulder! It Should Impress You Like Reality!

-William Morris Hunt

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There Is Force And Vitality In A

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 Seized You By The Shoulder! It Should Impress You Like Reality!

Topic

Reality

Men

Vitality

I Tell You It's No Joke To Paint A Portrait. I Wonder That I Am Not More Timid When I Begin. I Feel Almost Certain That I Can Do It. It Seems Very Simple. I Don't Think Of The Time That Is Sure To Come When I Almost Despair, When The Whole Thing Seems Hopeless.

Simple

Thinking

Despair