James Whistler Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

  James Whistler

  Photography, Skills, Looks

• 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

• Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

  James Whistler

  Agony, Causes, Painting

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.44, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  James Whistler

  Artist, Men, One Day

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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