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Make the best of an emergency.
— John Singer Sargent
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
— John Singer Sargent
Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
— William Shakespeare
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
A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
— 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
Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself.
— China Mieville
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.
— John Singer Sargent
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
Soft flesh mingled with defiant will to create one frustratingly perfect woman.
— Michelle M. Pillow
The thicker you paint, the more it flows.
— 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
I do not judge, I only chronicle.
— John Singer Sargent
Mine is the horny hand of toil.
— John Singer Sargent
Salvation is the most important thing that a person has and the devil knows very well what its value is.
— Sunday Adelaja
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
— John Singer Sargent