Whistler on Criticism
“No! Let there be no critics! They are not a ‘necessary evil,’ but an evil quite unnecessary, though an evil, certainly.” ~James McNeill Whistler, American
“No! Let there be no critics! They are not a ‘necessary evil,’ but an evil quite unnecessary, though an evil, certainly.” ~James McNeill Whistler, American
“I hold that none but an artist can be a competent critic.” ~ James McNeill Whistler, American painter and printmaker and leading champion of the
“…painting is so closely akin to music that the colors of the one may and should be used, like the ordered sounds of the other,
“The art of drawing, which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing and should be taught to every child
“…very bad pictures may be divided into two principle classes—those which are weakly or passively bad, and which are to be pitied and passed by;