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    • “Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.” ― James McNeill Whistler.
    • “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” ― James McNeill Whistler.
    • “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” ― James McNeill Whistler.
    • “Industry in art is a necessity—not a virtue—and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.”
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    “The story of the beautiful,” said Whistler, with the swagger that made all but his contemporaries love him, “is already complete—hewn in the marbles of the Parthenon, and broidered, with the birds...

    sorted chronologically, by date of the quotes about James Whistler For Mr Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of willful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of co...

  2. Learn more about quotes by famous American artist, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, in this extensive art history website.

    • Why should not I call my works 'symphonies', 'arrangements', 'harmonies', and 'nocturnes'?... 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.
    • Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
    • 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 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.
  3. 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 make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce. James McNeill Whistler: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies.

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