We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

Can't a person be born where they want to be born?