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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

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

An artist's career always begins tomorrow. — James Whistler

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure. — James Whistler

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. — James Whistler

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. — James Whistler

Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong ... — James Whistler

You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe. — James Whistler

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother. — James Whistler

Can't a person be born where they want to be born? — James Whistler

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink. — 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

Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress. — James Whistler

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general. — James Whistler

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them. — James Whistler

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. — James Whistler

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning. — James Whistler

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. — James Whistler

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you. — James Whistler

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

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill. — James Whistler

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. — James Whistler

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple. — James Whistler

Nature is usually wrong. — James Whistler

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

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass. — James Whistler

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color. — James Whistler

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. — James Whistler

Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will. — James McNeill Whistler

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 incomplete and unfit for view. — 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