The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

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Mr. Ruskin entertaining those views, it was not wonderful that his attention should be attracted to Mr. Whistler's pictures. He subjected the pictures, if they chose,[7] to ridi...

Furnished as they are with the means of furthering their foolishness, they spread prejudice abroad; and through the papers, at their service, thousands are warned against the wo...

"Did you say to Mr. Brown, 'Now, is not Mr. Whistler under an engagement with the Fine Art Society to publish no Venice etchings for a year?' or words to that effect? and upon M...

Far from me to spoil a good story; but for the life of me I cannot see what any sympathizing _raconteur_ will regret in the destruction of this mere jumble of statistics that Mr...

"To the Electors of the Slade Professor of Fine Art for the University of Cambridge.--My Lord and Gentlemen,--I beg to submit my name as a candidate for the Slade Professorship,...

That this is so, we can make sure of, by looking back at old reviews upon past exhibitions, and reading the flatteries lavished upon men who have since been forgotten altogether...

Speak of them, if it please you, with uncovered head--even as in France you would remove your hat as there passes by the hearse--but remember it is from the conventional habit o...

"The state of affairs?" said Mr. Whistler, in his light and airy way, raising his eyebrows and twinkling his eyes, as if it were all the best possible fun in the world; "why, my...

The other day I happened to call on Mr. Blank,--Japanese Blank, you know, whose house is in far Fulham. The garden door flew open at my summons, and my eye was at once confronte...

The Bard's reasoning is of the People. His Tragedy is _theirs_. As one of them, the _man_ may weep--yet will the artist rejoice--for to him is not "A thing of beauty a joy for e...

_Naïveté_, like yours, I have never met--even in my long experience with all those, some of whose "agreeable literature" may be, I suppose, in the 807 cuttings you charge me for.

"Mr. Whistler's single contribution is a child's portrait, posed and painted in a rather distant, if obsequious, imitation of the manner of Velasquez, the great difference being...