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William H. Hunt Quotes
Page 1 of 1William H. Hunt
June 12, 1823 - February 27, 1884
Nationality: American
Category: Soldier
Subcategory: American Soldier
|  When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth. | | I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand. | | There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. |
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