James McNeill Whistler

"May I therefore acknowledge the tender glow of health induced by reading, as I sat here in the morning sun, the flattering attention paid me by your gentleman of ready wreath and quick biography!"

"Why should not I call my works 'symphonies', 'arrangements', 'harmonies', and 'nocturnes'?.. .The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any stor…"

"You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe."

"Centre For Whistler Studies, Glasgow University"

"It is for the artist.. ..in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features."

"Whistler at Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut"

"As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of colour. The great musicians knew this. w:Beethoven and the res…"

"An account of the Whistler/Ruskin affair"