“These commercial travellers of art will never know the painter's pure delight, the contemplation of life, the aspiration to perfection, the lifting of beauty out of the dead pigment.”

Contrasting commerce with contemplative craft · The Whistler Book

• Art
• Beauty
• Commerce

“I have always endorsed Heine's defense of plagiarism, that it is permissible to steal entire columns and porticoes from a temple, providing the new edifice one erects with their aid is great enough.”

Allowing bold borrowing if the new work justifies it · Essay, On Plagiarism and Imitation, 1900

• Art
• Influence
• Originality

“Haiku ought to create a unison of the external beauties of nature and the subtleties of the human soul.”

Defining short Japanese verse as nature joined to soul · Writings on Japanese poetry

• Nature
• Poetry
• Soul