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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
— James Whistler
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James Whistler
painter, etcher, illustrator, writer, lithographer, printmaker, graphic artist, designer
1834 – 1903
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
All Quotes by James Whistler
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
— James Whistler
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The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
— James Whistler
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Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
— James Whistler