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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James Whistler
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About James Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by James WhistlerI can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.