HENRY--"He may be a great artist, but he has a peculiar way of doing
things."

HAPPY--"How's that?"

HENRY--"He says he painted his greatest masterpiece on an empty
stomach."


_Impressionistic_

Whistler once undertook to get a fellow artist's work into the autumn
salon. He succeeded, and the picture was hung. But the painter, going
to see his masterpiece with Whistler on varnishing day, uttered an
exclamation of dismay.

"Good Heavens!" he cried, "you're exhibiting my picture upside down."

"Hush!" said Whistler. "The committee refused it the other way."


"If you do good work, your work will grow after you are gone."

"That's a fact. Rubens left only some 2,000 pictures, but there are
10,000 of his pictures in circulation now."


"Luxurious tastes Richleigh has. He has a Corot in his office."

"That's nothing! I have a whistler in mine."