...a picture as well as by a poem,--even by a realistic Dutch painting. Women worship the Venus of Milo now, he said, just as they did in ancient Greece, and it is good for them, too. He respected William Morris Hunt as the best American painter of his time, but thought he would be a better painter if he were not so proud. Pride leads to arrogance, and arrogance is blinding. After he came into possession of...