Shall the painter then.... decide upon painting? Shall he be the critic and sole authority? Aggressive as is this supposition, I fear that, in the length of time, his assertion alone has established what even the gentleman of the quill accept as the canons of art, and recognize as the masterpieces of work. Seurat's painting of the Grande Jatte proved extremely influential.

Whistler, (1892) In: Gentle Art of making Enemies, James Albert McNeill Whistler, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1922, p. 30