If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

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!

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

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.