James Whistler
  • Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

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

  • The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

  • I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

  • To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.