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Even Sheridan Ford came out unscathed, although they were never on terms of
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amity and acquiescence. Nor did ever his American acquaintances advance to
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H. W. Singer says in his little monograph that
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Perhaps Whistler's human soul was occupied by a double portion of malice, invidiousness and pettiness, so that his artistic spirit might be entirely free and unfettered in its greatness.
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Well, you know, you have only to look, and there it all is in the Bible, or
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I am afraid you do not know the Bible as you should,
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All the same, he was one of the true fearless champions that art ever had, he fought with the dignity of the artist, demanded consideration and courteous treatment, and upheld dignity of workmanship, never tired of exposing and exploiting the ignorance of the average press critic.
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Ten O'Clock. He chose this title because he did not want the people to rush to him from the dinner table, as to the theatre. Ten o'clock was early enough. The audience and critics who greeted him in Prince's Hall, London, on that never to be forgotten occasion, were puzzled by what they chose to regard as Whistler's
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As a matter of fact, he was not posing at all, but had called them to him that he might impart to them, out of his very heart, the standard of artistic faith by which his life was ruled. It was a revolt not so much against the conclusions of modern paintings nor a plea for Japanese art (he does not mention Japan except once in the beautiful final sentence:
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The story of the beautiful is already complete, hewn in the marble of Parthenon--and broidered, with the birds, upon the fan of Hokusai at the foot of Fusiyama ) as against the pedantic and realistic methods in art, a fierce crusade for the ideals of painting. His style is virile, individual, marvellously condensed and suggestive. It contains a number of beautifully put phrases like:
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Art happens--no hovel is safe, no prince can depend upon it.
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Colours are not more since the heavy hangings of night were first drawn aside, and the loveliness of night revealed.
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If art be rare to-day it is seldom heretofore.