Whistler
“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color”.
John La Farge
Tonalism owes much of its earliest principles to an underrated (because hard to classify) nineteenth-century American artist, John La Farge.
George Inness
“The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature”.
William Morris Hunt
“Paint what you see and what you feel… If you’ve forgotten the poetry and the mystery, you can’t get it again. It’s the way you look at a thing that makes the picture!”.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color”.