The Whistler book : a monograph of the life and position in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works (1910)
ernpaintings nor a plea for Japanese art (he doesnot mention Japan except once in the beautifulfinal sentence: The story of the beautiful isalready complete, hewn in the marble of Par-thenon — and broidered, with the birds, uponthe fan of Hokusai at the foot of Fusiyama )as against the pedantic and… … THE LIME BURNER (ETCHING). Whistlers Iconoclasm 199 happens — no hovel is safe, no jprince can de-pend upon it. Colours are not more since the heavy hang-ings of night were first drawn aside, and theloveliness of night revealed. If art be rare to-day it is seldom hereto-fore. In these aphorisms he…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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