People will forgive anything but
beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable. --James
Abbott McNeill Whistler
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| There is only one thing valuable in art; the thing you cannot explain. -- Georges Braque |
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| The artist is not a 'Sunday
child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have
the right to live without duty. -Wassily
Kandinsky |
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| Art is either plagiarism or
revolution. --Paul Gauguin |
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| With an apple I will astonish
Paris. --
Paul Cezanne |
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| A paintings is not completely
finished until the artist has separated the spirit from body . --
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres |
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| A room hung with pictures is a
room hung with thoughts.--J
oshua Reynolds |
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| Only when he no longer knows what
he is doing does the painter do good things. --Edgar Degas |
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| Great things are done by a series
of small things brought together. Georges Seurat |
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| A painting that is well composed
is half finished. -- Pierre
Bonnard |
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| Civilization is what makes you
sick. -- Paul
Gauguin |
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| Inspired
intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education. -- Paul
Delaroche |
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| While I recognize the necessity
for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that
is felt." --
Odilon Redon |
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| All art critics are useless or
harmful. --
Umberto Boccioni |
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“I can't tell you if genius is
hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.” --James
Abbott McNeill Whistler
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