William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chasewas an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth1 November 1849
CountryUnited States of America
integrity eye race
Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.
ambition today succeed
Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.
europe heaven
My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.
views criticism association
Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.
design
Design is everything.