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Nature is usually wrong. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
Naturally, I never told him I thought he was a terrific whistler. I mean you don't just go up to somebody and say, 'You're a terrific whistler. ~ J.D. Salinger
Whistler quotes by J.D. Salinger
There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler. ~ Arthur Hailey
Whistler quotes by Arthur Hailey
For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will. ~ James McNeill Whistler
Whistler quotes by James McNeill Whistler
Mauve is just pink trying to be purple. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
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. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
Can't a person be born where they want to be born? ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words
their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again? ~ Markus Zusak
Whistler quotes by Markus Zusak
People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress. ~ James Whistler
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If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by 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. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
Then rang the war chime, the clang of steel on steel loud over Leavenheath, and there came into my heart again the longing to wipe out the memory of old defeats, and I gripped my axe and shield and waited for my turn to come. ~ Charles W. Whistler
Whistler quotes by Charles W. Whistler
A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
Impossible?" she scoffed, lurching to face him. "You have servants who can pull the brains from a calf's head, but they couldn' get one little pear out of a bottle? I doubt that. Send for one of your under-butlers - just give a whistle, and - oh, I forgot. You can't whistle." She focused on him, her eyes narrowing as she stared at his mouth. "That's the sillies' thing I ever heard. Everyone can whistle. I'll teach you. Right now. Pucker your lips. Like this. Pucker…see?"
Marcus caught her in his arms as she swayed before him. Staring down at her adorably pursed lips, he felt an insistent warmth invading his heart, overflowing and spilling past its fretted barriers. God in heaven, he was tired of fighting his desire for her. It was exhausting to struggle against something so overwhelming. Like trying not to breathe.
Lillian stared at him earnestly, seeming puzzled by his refusal to comply. "No, no, not like that. Like this." The bottle dropped to the carpet. She reached up to his mouth and tried to shape his lips with her fingers. "Rest your tongue on the edge of your teeth and…it's all about the tongue, really. If you're agile with your tongue, you'll be a very, very good" - she was temporarily interrupted as he covered her mouth with a brief, ravening kiss - "whistler. My lord, I can't talk when you - " He fitted his mouth to hers again, devouring the sweet brandied taste of her. ~ Lisa Kleypas
Whistler quotes by Lisa Kleypas
In Britain, chinoiserie was eclipsed by the medievalism of Sir Walter Scott and the Gothic Revival, while in Europe japonisme would be chinoiserie's successor. Japonisme never compelled the general middle-class British taste as did the indigenous medieval style. Nonetheless, through extensive importations to Britain of Japanese art and artifacts, notably by the shop Liberty's of London, as well as through the artists James McNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the architect E.W. Godwin, and the writer Oscar Wilde, the Japanese style of decoration was known in Britain well before 1894. ~ Linda Gertner Zatlin
Whistler quotes by Linda Gertner Zatlin
He had shrewd, on the spot judgement about human nature. Good sense with good manners and the practice of contentment made up in his view a large part of wisdom. ~ Theresa Whistler
Whistler quotes by Theresa Whistler
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. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
The dining-room was in the good taste of the period. It was very severe. There was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames. The green curtains with their peacock design, hung in straight lines, and the green carpet, in the pattern of which pale rabbits frolicked among leafy trees, suggested the influence of William Morris. There was blue delft on the chimneypiece. At that time there must have been five hundred dining-rooms in London decorated in exactly the same manner. It was chaste, artistic, and dull. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Whistler quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are. ~ Joss Whedon
Whistler quotes by Joss Whedon
We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
Billy Whistler: Emotions are like work of art. They can be forged they seem just like the original but they are forgery.
Virgil Oldman: Forgery.
Billy Whistler: Everything can be fake Virgil: joy, pain, hate, illness, recovery... even love. ~ The Best Offer
Whistler quotes by The Best Offer
Ford even began to whistle, which was probably his mistake. Nobody likes a whistler, ~ Douglas Adams
Whistler quotes by Douglas Adams
The song she heard from the meadow was the same tune as the bird's call.She looked up in the trees.For a moment she thought she'd lost the bird, and she nearly cried out for him, but he fluttered down,landed right at her feet, and grew into a man."
"Oh." Meg sighed.She'd always liked that part.
"He whistled the tune once more, then the fey man said, 'My lady,will you dance?"
"'I will.' She crossed the bridge to the meadow,and danced with the whistler."
"Tell us they married," Meg said.
"The story doesn't go like that," Poppy reminded.
"It should." Meg stroked Tom's blood-clotted hair.
I fumbled with the charcoal in my blackened fingers. As the story went, the girl danced through the seasons, but when she wandered home at last and reached her cottage door, she was a shriveled-up old women, for a hundred years had passed while she danced with the whistler,and everyone she'd known in her former life had died.
Meg knew how it went.But when our eyes locked, I saw tonight she couldn't bear it. I found another bit of charcoal. "That very spring when the meadow was in bloom,the whistler, who had fey power to transform into a bird and sing any girl he wished to into the wood, chose the one girl who'd followed him so bravely and so far to be his wife. And she lived with him and the fey folk deep in Dragonswood in DunGarrow Castle, a place that blends into the mountainside and cannot be seen with human eyes unless the fairies will it so."
I d ~ Janet Lee Carey
Whistler quotes by Janet Lee Carey
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. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible. ~ Sebastian Bach
Whistler quotes by Sebastian Bach
Nature is very rarely right, to such an extent even, that it might almost be said that nature is usually wrong ... ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation. ~ James Whistler
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An artist's career always begins tomorrow. ~ James Whistler
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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. ~ James McNeill Whistler
Whistler quotes by James McNeill Whistler
Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours? ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature. ~ Sterling W. Sill
Whistler quotes by Sterling W. Sill
But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self. ~ Mark Tobey
Whistler quotes by Mark Tobey
Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony ~ James Whistler
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began. ~ Daniel Levin Becker
Whistler quotes by Daniel Levin Becker
Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
I can't. I w-want y-you, my own fucking twin! ~ Sage Whistler
Whistler quotes by Sage Whistler
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass. ~ James Whistler
Whistler quotes by James Whistler
... The influence of the Pre-Raphaelites was felt less through their paintings than through a book, The Poems of Tennyson, edited by Moxon and wonderfully illustrated by Rossetti and Millais. The influence on Maeterlinck stems less from the poems themselves than from the illustrations. The revival of illustrated books in the last two years of the century derives from this Tennyson, the books printed at William Morris' press, the albums of Walter Crane. These last two and the ravishing little books for children by Kate Greenaway were heralded by Huysmans as early as 1881.

Generally speaking, it is the English Aesthetic Movement rather than the Pre-Raphaelites which influenced the Symbolists, a new life-style rather than a school of painting. The Continent, passing through the Industrial Revolution some fifty years after England, found valuable advice on how to escape from materialism on the other side of the Channel. Everything that one heard about the refinements practised in Chelsea enchanted Frenchmen of taste: furniture by Godwin, open-air theatricals by Lady Archibald Campbell, the Peacock Room by Whistler, Liberty prints. As the pressure of morality was much less pronounced in France than in England, the ideal of Aestheticism was not a revolt but a retreat towards an exquisite world which left hearty good living to the readers of the magazine La Vie Parisienne ('Paris Life') and success to the readers of Zola. If one could not write a beautiful poem or paint a ~ Philippe Jullian
Whistler quotes by Philippe Jullian
Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative patterns. While "ready-mades" do show up from time to time, they are rare. Art need not be what is seen-but what is to be seen. "Nature," said James McNeill Whistler, "is usually wrong." ~ Robert Genn
Whistler quotes by Robert Genn
Fucking is for bathroom stalls and the back seat of a Toyota ~ Sage Whistler
Whistler quotes by Sage Whistler
As we walked, Jane whistled songs I didn't recognize. She was a good whistler and a fast walker, the squeak of her leg comforting, like the chug of a train or the whir of a fan, a piece of machinery doing its job. I liked following just behind her; she had such purpose to all of her moves. ~ Emily M. Danforth
Whistler quotes by Emily M. Danforth
Nevertheless, we react to one a bit differently than we do to Rothko's hovering panels or Barnett Newman's stripes, though Whistler does approach their extremity of abstraction; part of our pleasure lies in recognizing bridges and buildings in the mist, and in sensing the damp riverine silence, the glimmering metropolitan presence. ... The painting - a single blurred stripe of urban shore - is additionally daring in that the sky and sea are no shade of blue, but, instead, an improbable, pervasive cobalt green. Human vision is here taken to its limits, and modern painting, as a set of sensations realized in paint, is achieved. ~ John Updike
Whistler quotes by John Updike
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