Quotes by John Singer Sargent - Page 1

Make the best of an emergency.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
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Mine is the horny hand of toil.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Hands
Horny
Toil
Hand
Mine
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I do not judge, I only chronicle.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Chronicles
Do Not Judge
Judging
Judge
Chronicle
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The thicker you paint, the more it flows.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Flow
Paint
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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Art
Funny
Smile
Age
Truth
Lying
Paint
Friend
Every
Every Time
Lose
Portrait
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A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Mouths
Painting
Portraits
Portraiture
Wrong
Mouth
Portrait
Something
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No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Dabs
Paint
Want
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You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Art
Curiosity
Drawing
Enough
Sketching
Fresh
Sketch
Sketches
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I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Beneath The Surface
Eye
Surface
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It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Certain
Overcoming
Talent
Entirely
Overcomes
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A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Littles
Mouths
Portraits
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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 finished.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Men
Artist
Should Have
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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 / Artist
Appreciation
Color
Eye
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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 / Artist
Groups
Incidents
Posture
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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 dusk or dark.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Dark
Dusk
Eyesight
Impressionism
Light
Normal
Way
Blinding
Unless
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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 darks, you avoid false accents.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Lasts
Light
Tone
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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 but used for quite a different reason.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Book
Colour
Couture
Different
Habit
Impressionism
Reason
Technique
Used
Written
Advocate
Quite
Breaking
Breaking Up
Dates
Further
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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 what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Eye
Names
Vision
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'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 what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Attention
Certain
Form
Given
Impressionism
Observation
Vision
Content
Eyes
Looked
Noting
Test
Took
Turned
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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 the mind... a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Groups
Mind
Sunlight
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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 youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.
John Singer Sargent / Artist
Men
Believe
Hate
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