“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.” PaintingMouthsPortraitsPortraiture Author:John Singer Sargent
“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.” ArtTruthFunnyLyingLosesPaintingPaintPortraitsSelf Portrait Author:John Singer Sargent
“A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.” LittlesMouthsTinyPortraits Author:John Singer Sargent
“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.” MenBelieveKindMayEnoughHateI BelieveYouthColorI HatePaintDesertFortyPortraitsInseparableHad EnoughManualsPortraitureDexterity Author:John Singer Sargent
