Singer Sargent Quotes

#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. It is the untold story of this war and it is the story of every war ever fought. Greedy men seeing someone weaker with something they want.

C.C. Humphreys

#4. 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

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

John Singer Sargent

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

John Singer Sargent

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

John Singer Sargent

#8. The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic.

Isaac Asimov

#9. 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

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

John Singer Sargent

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

John Singer Sargent

#12. 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

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

John Singer Sargent

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

John Singer Sargent

#15. 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

#16. The applause of the conscience can only bring a marvelous Self-Esteem

Rajasaraswathii

#17. 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

#18. Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninvited and yanking you out into reality, smells enter your dreams with a silent knock and a polite Excuse me?

Adi Alsaid

#19. Your brain with all its parts, exists to keep you safe, but your mind, with all your memories and intuition, exists to help you soar.

Toni Sorenson

#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. 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

#23. Make the best of an emergency.

John Singer Sargent

#24. I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.

Jacob K. Javits

#25. In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

Paul Allen

#26. As uncomfortable as I feel, I keep the girly underwear on anyway. Who knows? Provided they stay the hell out of my butt crack, they might make me feel sexier later on today.

Miranda Kenneally

#27. When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#28. When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.

Karen Armstrong