(15 quotes found)
“The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many”
James Whistler
“It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.”
“You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.”
“I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.”
“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”
“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”
“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.”
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
“An artist's career always begins tomorrow”
“Work alone will efface the footsteps of work”
