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."