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)
borngift, that everything can be acquired by longpractice save that one supernatural quality ofgenius which alone can transform a painterinto a great artist. What is there in these pic-tures produced every year, here and in Parisand everywhere? Portraits, landscapes, ordi-nary delineations of… … Eh §r The Story of the Beautiful 249 mantle of Whistlers muse may fall, must real-ize, that it is a vain endeavour — as futile ascloud shadows on a summer day — unless theyknow that they can hold her, the capriciousjade, as they possess the magic wand to callher. This was the spirit in which…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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