Yes, madam, Nature is creeping up.
James Mcneill Whistler
A group from Glasgow sought in 1891 to purchase his portrait of Thomas Carlyle was shocked that Whistler's price was 1000 guineas. A spokesman countered that the portrait was not even life size. Whistler replied, But, you know, few men are life size.
life men
The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
friendship life
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obthisiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only- having no desire to teach.
art
Art is upon the Town!
Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.
nations art
nature
Nature is usually wrong.
wrongs nature
It is for the artist.. In portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.
man
John Ruskin: The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas? Whistler: No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.
work
May I therefore acknowledge the tender glow of health induced by reading, as I sat here in the morning sun, the flattering attention paid me by your gentleman of ready wreath and quick biography!
reading health wreaths
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
labor
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