Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to … - James Whistler

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The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

James Whistler

Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.

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

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Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.

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Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

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People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

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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.

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