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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
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James Whistler
Age: 69 †
Born: 1834
Born: July 10
Died: 1903
Died: July 17
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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More quotes by James Whistler
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony
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.
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Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?
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If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
James Whistler
The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.
James Whistler
Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong.
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Can't a person be born where they want to be born?
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Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
James Whistler
The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.
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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.
James Whistler
People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.
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
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.
James Whistler
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?
James Whistler
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.
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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
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.
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