James McNeill Whistler Quotes

Famous Quotes by James McNeill Whistler

• "I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."  —James Mcneill Whistler on Intelligence
• "If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer.

  It is for the artist to do something beyond this."  —James Mcneill Whistler on Photography

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