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~ James McNeill Whistler Quote
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 McNeill Whistler Quote
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 McNeill Whistler Quote
Nature is usually wrong.
~ James McNeill Whistler Quote
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.
~ James McNeill Whistler Quote
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 Quote
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 McNeill Whistler Quote