James Whistler

Artist

1834-07-11

Quotes by James Whistler

• Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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