John Singer Sargent Art Quotes - (11 quotes)

John Singer Sargent - From the Criticism category:

-on his own art and subjects...
I do not judge, I only chronicle. (John Singer Sargent)

John Singer Sargent - From the Curiosity category:

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. (John Singer Sargent)

John Singer Sargent - From the Portraiture category:

I have now got a bombproof shelter [the Continent] into which I retire when I sniff the coming portrait or its trajectory. (John Singer Sargent)

John Singer Sargent - From the Portraiture category:

Every time I paint a portrait, I lose a friend. (John Singer Sargent)

John Singer Sargent - From the Portraiture category:

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth. (John Singer Sargent)

John Singer Sargent - From the Prayer category:

To work is to pray. (John Singer Sargent)

John Singer Sargent - From the Subject category:

-on painting two girls in a garden at twilight with lanterns...
A fearful difficult subject. (John Singer Sargent)

John Singer Sargent - From the Values category:

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)

John Singer Sargent - From the Vision category:

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes. (John Singer Sargent)

John Singer Sargent - From the Watercolours category:

-on painting a watercolour...
Make the best of an emergency. (John Singer Sargent)

John Singer Sargent - From the Work category:

Mine is the horny hand of toil. (John Singer Sargent)