Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

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!

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.