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James Abbott McNeill Whistler Art Quotes

 
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"You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe." -- James  McNeill Whistler

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision." -- James  McNeill Whistler

"If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible." -- James  McNeill Whistler

"People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable." -- James  McNeill Whistler

"You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe." -- James  McNeill Whistler

"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."

"An artist's career always begins tomorrow." -- James  McNeill Whistler

"I am not arguing with you - I am telling you." -- James  McNeill Whistler

“I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.” James Abbott McNeill Whistler

 “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” James Abbott McNeill Whistler

“The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many” James Abbott McNeill Whistler


“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” James Abbott McNeill Whistler


“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.” James Abbott McNeill Whistler

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