James McNeill Whistler Quotes

The world is divided into two classes -- invalids and nurses.

Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

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.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

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

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

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

An artist''s career always begins tomorrow.

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

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible

Art happens, no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you