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“Industry in art is a necessity—not a virtue—and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.”
― James McNeill Whistler

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
― James McNeill Whistler

“Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.”
― James McNeill Whistler

“By Woden, God of Saxons,
From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday,
Truth is a thing that ever I will keep
Unto thylke day in which I creep into
My sepulchre”
― William Cartwright