James Whistler Quotes About Harmony

Quotes about: Harmony

• Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony

  James Whistler

  Beautiful, Wise, Artist

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.12, Courier Corporation

• 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 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

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