Quotes About John Singer Sargent

#1. Mine is the horny hand of toil.

John Singer Sargent

#2. No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

John Singer Sargent

#3. Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

Claude Monet

#4. A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

John Singer Sargent

#5. I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

John Singer Sargent

#6. A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.

Robert Crawford

#7. Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

#8. 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

#9. The thicker you paint, the more it flows.

John Singer Sargent

#10. A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

John Singer Sargent

#11. 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

#12. It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

John Singer Sargent

#13. Fashion is about fun, you know, and I think a lot of people forget that sometimes.

Georgia May Jagger

#14. I do not judge, I only chronicle.

John Singer Sargent

#15. They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.

Yip Harburg

#16. 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

#17. Information is Key to Opportunities, So Pick Up a Book!

Brenda Johnson Padgitt

#18. 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

#19. Power corrupts on an equal-opportunity basis.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#20. You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

John Singer Sargent

#21. 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

#22. I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

Ester Dean

#23. 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

#24. Make the best of an emergency.

John Singer Sargent

#25. So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

Michael Apted