Quotes by James Whistler

James Whistler

Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: ‘My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don’t you ever finish them?’ James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: ‘My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

Dear

States

Unfinished

Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.

Inspirational

Strength

Success

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

Arguing

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.

Four

Three

Two

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

Communication

People

Talking

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

Gas

Science

Should Have

Industry in art is a necessity – not a virtue – and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

Achievement

Art

Quality

It is for the artist… in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

Artist

Men

One Day

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Purple

Trying

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

Glasses

Paint

Should

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Achievement

Arguing

Art

Artist

Birth

Born

Careers

Class

Color

Communication

Creativity

Dear

Desire

Effort

Eye

Finishing

Footsteps

Forgiving

Four

Friendship

Gas

Glasses

Hands

Independent

Infinite

Inspirational

Joy

Looks

Majority

Masters

May

Mean

Men

Mother

Music

Nurse

One Day

Paint

People

Perfection

Persons

Photography

Player

Praise

Progress

Purple

Quality

Said

Science

Should

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Quotes by James Whistler

James Whistler

Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: ‘My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don’t you ever finish them?’ James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: ‘My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

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

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.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

Industry in art is a necessity – not a virtue – and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

It is for the artist… in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

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