Famous quotes containing the words mcneill whistler, mcneill and/or whistler:
“Yes, madam, Nature is creeping up.”
—James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)
“Ruskin’s counsel: The labour of two days ... is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?
Whistler: No: I ask it for the knowledge of a lifetime.”
—James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)
“To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.”
—James Mcneill Whistler (1834–1903)