Whistler Quotes

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But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.

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.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

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!

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?

Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.

Whistler, ' Manet called. 'How's your mother?