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Type: Artist Quotes Category: American Artist Quotes Date of Birth: July 14, 1834 Date of Death: July 17, 1903 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: James Whistler Related Authors: Andy Warhol Florence Scovel Shinn Norman Rockwell Georgia O'Keeffe Willem de Kooning Yoko Ono Corita Kent Roy Lichtenstein Alex Grey |
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James Whistler An artist's career always begins tomorrow. James Whistler I am not arguing with you - I am telling you. James Whistler I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. James 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 Whistler If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. James Whistler It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. James Whistler The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many. James 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 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 Whistler Work alone will efface the footsteps of work. James 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 Whistler |
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