The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
