Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by William H. Hunt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American public servant William H. Hunt.

Last updated on November 28, 2024.

William Henry Hunt was the 29th United States Secretary of the Navy, Minister to the Russian Empire and a Judge of the Court of Claims.

American - Public Servant | June 12, 1823 - February 27, 1884

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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.

William H. Hunt

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.

William H. Hunt

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.

William H. Hunt

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by William H. Hunt

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