John Singer Sargent Quotes
- An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is…
- A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
- Mine is the horny hand of toil.
- I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
- Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in…
- I do not judge, I only chronicle.
- Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.
- I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his…
- A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the…
- It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
- Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or…
- 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…
- No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.
- The thicker you paint, the more it flows.
- If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest…
- Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.
- Make the best of an emergency.
- A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
- Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
- You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.