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James McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903)


American-born, British-based painter and etcher.
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James McNeill Whistler
Art is upon the Town!
Whistler quotes
Nature is usually wrong.
Whistler
It would have been called provincial and barbarous; it would have been cited as an incident of low civilization to confuse such art.




Whistler James McNeill quotes
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
Whistler James McNeill
Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
James McNeill Whistler quotes
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
James McNeill Whistler
The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
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