Painting Quote by John Singer Sargent Download Open image ““A portrait is a picture with something wrong with the mouth”” — John Singer Sargent ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting
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
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible. — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly applied emulsion,… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“I think that a good portrait reveals a suggestion of the subject’s mind, and not just a representation of how they look. It’s by… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be… — Annie Leibovitz 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
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think I'm a guy who can get into the paint, make plays and obviously distribute and make plays for other guys, too. — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
“Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share Image
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
