James Whistler
James Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistlerwas an American artist, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail. The symbol was apt, for it combined both aspects of his personality—his art was characterized by a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth11 July 1834
CountryUnited States of America
Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.
The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.
Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
An artist's career always begins tomorrow
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
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.
I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.
Nature is usually wrong.