"John Ruskin: 'The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?' Whistler: 'No. I ask it for the …"

"Why should not I call my works 'symphonies', 'arrangements', 'harmonies', and 'nocturnes'?.. .The vast majority of En…"

"If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artis…"

"Shall the painter then.. ..decide upon painting? Shall he be the critic and sole authority? Aggressive as is this sup…"

"May I therefore acknowledge the tender glow of health induced by reading, as I sat here in the morning sun, the flatt…"

"Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better othe…"

"Art is upon the Town!"

"Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation."

"Nature is usually wrong."

"“The story of the beautiful,” said Whistler, with the swagger that made all but his contemporaries love him, “is alre…"