James Whistler Quotes

» I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

» I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the ameteur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

» I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

» You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

» If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

» It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

» Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

» An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

» An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

» The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

» To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

» I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

» The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

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