Best Whistler Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?”

States Dear Unfinished Sketchy Whistler

Author: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!”

Artist Students Paint Shock Great Art Great Artist Whistler

Author:James Whistler

“But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.”

Self Hard Rooms Moon Creating Core Mood Transformed Grey Orange Mist Faded Dreamy Hard Core Whistler

Author:Mark Tobey

“I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for like a half hour to the top of this mountain and you ski down, it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.”

Long Would Be Past Hours Half Mountain Bottom Incredibles Clouds Lifts Canada Chairs Skis Half Hours Skiing Vancouver Whistler

Author:Sebastian Bach

“As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.”

Art Ideas Greater Heard Originals Entertainment Painter Superiority Borrowing Original Ideas Whistler

Author:Oscar Wilde

“A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature.”

Men Art Stories Able Involved Rose Tiny Execution Magnificent Artistry Reproduction Spray Whistler

Author:Sterling W Sill

“Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative patterns. While "ready-mades" do show up from time to time, they are rare. Art need not be what is seen-but what is to be seen. "Nature," said James McNeill Whistler, "is usually wrong."”

Needs Art Made Said Shows Problem Imagination Natural Creative Example Ready Development Patterns Loaded Whistler

Author:Robert Genn

“There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.”

Has Beens Facts Artist Colony Whistler

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.”

Looks Mother Night Morning Motherhood Behave Like Her Morning After Whistler

Author:Tallulah Bankhead

“I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.”

People Trying Clear Museums Whistler

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.”

Ends Shapes Likes Divinity Whistler

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again?”

“Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?”

Mother Whistler

Author:Christopher Moore

“I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.”

Ifs Knows Feels Girl Hurt Hell Married Sorry Boredom Bores Terrific Getting Married Whistler

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began.”

Jobs Mother Chance Serious Gaps Guru Footsteps Tracing Serious Things Bodhisattva Whistler Docents

Author:Daniel Levin Becker

“There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.”

Years Blind Blindness Whistler

Author:Art Carney

“But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.”

Black Supposed To Be Someday Looking Forward Combs Snowboarding Whistler

Author:Bridget Hall