James Whistler Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  James Whistler

  Tattoo, Art, Creativity

• It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

  James Whistler

  Art, Men, Long

• 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.

  James Whistler

  Art, Color, Sight

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.106, Courier Corporation

• Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

  James Whistler

  Art, Intelligence, May

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.118, Courier Corporation

• Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

  James Whistler

  Appreciation, Art, Periods

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.112, Courier Corporation

• An artist's career always begins tomorrow

  James Whistler

  Art, Writing, Careers

• Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

  James Whistler

  Art, Perfection, Desire

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.110, Courier Corporation

• Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.

  James Whistler

  Art, Independent, Eye

  James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

• For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

  James Whistler

  Art, Hands, Joy

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.120, Courier Corporation

• Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

  James Whistler

  Art, Progress, Infinite

  James McNeill Whistler (1967). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.155, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  James Whistler

  Art, Achievement, Quality

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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