Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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James McNeill Whistler Quotes Click here for James McNeill Whistler books James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth "Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five." "Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation." "Nature is usually wrong." "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." "The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter—perfect in its bud as in its bloom—with no reason to explain its presence—no mission to fulfill—a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist—a puzzle to the botanist—an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man." "It is for the artist...in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features." "One cannot continually disappoint a Continent." "It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait."
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