Circumstances should never alter principles!

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.