A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see. ' … - James Whistler

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It's Richard Kelly's brilliance, because he led me to Donnie Darko performance. He wanted sincerity, he didn't want it to be one color, and he made me go vulnerable, and I think that's why it works. When you can get all those different colors and levels in one line. Time Out New York voted it "Best Line Of The Year" - which is crazy, because how many words is it? "Sometimes. I. Doubt. Your. Commitment. To. Sparkle. Motion. " Eight words. It's crazy.

James Whistler

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see. ' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

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Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.

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Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

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People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

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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.

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