Whistler

She packed all his manuscripts (and carbon copies) and set off only to have the suitcase stolen at the train station.

Hemingway comforted his wife over the loss, yet decades later he recalled the pain and utter heartbreak of losing hid early writings.  It was so severe, he said, that he had to "put it out of mind almost with surgery."

When I am traveling by carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep;  it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. -Wolfgang Mozart

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.  -James Whistler

To say to †he painter nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the piano player that he may sit on the piano. -James Whistler