62 Quotes by James Whistler

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

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.

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.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.