If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. James Macneill Whistler
I am not arguing with you – I am telling you. James Macneill Whistler
I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. James Macneill Whistler
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. James Macneill Whistler
Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce. James Macneill Whistler