Best James Whistler Quotes
- Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a… Absolutely
- A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when… Ah
- The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning. Beginning
- An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. Art
- If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. Becomes
- I am not arguing with you - I am telling you. Arguing
- I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. Genius
- 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… Amateur
- It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. Art
- 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… Any
- To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is… Earnest
- 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… Gamer
- If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general. Been
- Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. Art
- An artist's career always begins tomorrow Always Begins
- Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to… Art