Art Quotes by James Whistler

James Whistler

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

Art

Creativity

Tattoo

James Whistler

An artist’s career always begins tomorrow

Art

Careers

Writing

James Whistler

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.

Art

Desire

Perfection

James Whistler

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

Art

Infinite

Progress

James Whistler

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.

Art

Eye

Independent

James Whistler

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.

Art

Color

Sight

James Whistler

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

Art

Hands

Joy

James Whistler

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

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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

Should Have

Sight

Simple

Skills

Spring

States

Stories

Strength

Strong

Students

Success

Sweat

Taken

Talent

Talking

Tattoo

Three

Trying

Two

Unfinished

Used

Views

Want

Writing

Art Quotes by James Whistler

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

An artist’s career always begins tomorrow

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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