"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."

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Source : James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.114, Courier Corporation

James Whistler

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“For a long time, to obtain enterprise customers, I concealed the fact that I owned the company. I never lied about it, but I never volunteered that information. My business card didn't even have a title”
“In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.”
“We rise in glory as we sink in pride.”
“But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear.”
“The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
“my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah”
“Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.”
“I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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