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Make the best of an emergency.
— John Singer Sargent
Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?
— Spike Jonze
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
— John Singer Sargent
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
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
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
— John Singer Sargent
I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
— John Singer Sargent
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.
— John Singer Sargent
You can fool too many people, too much of the time.
— James Thurber
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
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
— John Singer Sargent
The thicker you paint, the more it flows.
— John Singer Sargent
May your birthday be as pleasant and awesome as you always are.
— Debasish Mridha
She's the one. I'm the never.
— Anonymous
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
— John Singer Sargent
I do not judge, I only chronicle.
— John Singer Sargent
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.
— Antonio Gaudi
You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning.
— Robin Sharma
Mine is the horny hand of toil.
— John Singer Sargent
You have to step up when your number is called.
— Reggie Lewis
If you're going to start tonight there's no time to waste. Certainly not enough time to finish your quarrel with this dim-witted mushroom-muncher.
— Cornelia Funke
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
— John Singer Sargent
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
A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya