If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be t...he photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this: in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and u...nfit for view.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ruskin's counsel: The labour of two days ... is that for which you ask two hundred guineas? Whistler: No: I ask it for the kn...owledge of a lifetime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »