Frasi di James Abbott McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler è stato un pittore statunitense.

✵ 11. Luglio 1834 – 17. Luglio 1903
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Frasi in inglese

“I am not arguing with you — I am telling you.”

Propositions, 2
1870 - 1903, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (1890)

“Oscar Wilde: 'I wish I had said that'
Whistler: 'You will, Oscar, you will.”

Origine: posthumous published, L.C. Ingleby, Oscar Wilde (1907). This is a paraphrased version of the quotation that has come to be accepted. For a chronology of sources see Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/05/oscar-will/.

“You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.”

Quoted by Don C. Seitz in Whistler Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13973 (1913)
posthumous published

“The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.”

Dedication
1870 - 1903, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (1890)

“Nature is usually wrong.”

1870 - 1903, his lecture 'Ten O'Clock' (1885)

“Art is upon the Town!”

1870 - 1903, his lecture 'Ten O'Clock' (1885)

“One is always finding out more.”

[A Chat with Mr. Whistler, January 1895, The Studio, 4, 116–121, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510019270823;view=1up;seq=132] (quote from p. 118)
1870 - 1903, A Chat with Mr. Whistler' (1895)

“One cannot continually disappoint a Continent.”

Propositions, 2
1870 - 1903, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (1890)

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