A life passed among pictures makes not a painteröelse the policeman in the National Gallery might assert himself.

-Whistler,James (Abbott) McNeill
  The GentleArt of Making Enemies.

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.

-Whistler,James (Abbott) McNeill
  The GentleArt of Making Enemies.

A writer of talent needs onlya typewriter and paper, a painter only needs brushes, canvas and paint, but I need a million dollars or moreto be in business.That's a hell of a business to be in.

-Winner, Langdon
  In the Observer Magazine,7 Jul.

If mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Elegiac Stanzas: suggested by a picture of Peele Castle in a storm', stanza 4 (published1807).