“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.” ShouldKindArtEyeEmotionCallingConcernEarsHarmonyIndependentDevotionPityArtisticAppealsTrapsArrangementsStand AloneConfoundingPity Love Book:Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)