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I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

~James Whistler

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The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: July 14th, 1834

Died: July 17th, 1903

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