Quotes by John Singer Sargent

“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”

“You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.”

“It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.”

“If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it. ”

“If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.”

“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 par...”

“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, turn...”