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Quote by James Whistler
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James Wh

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. – James Whistler

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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

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. – Golda Meir

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To us, who live in the nineteenth century, any century is a suitable subject for art except our own. The only beautiful things are things that do not concern us. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldnt say any other way – things I had no words for. – Georgia OKeeffe

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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt

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This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. – Samuel Johnson

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