Quotes by Sargent, John Singer

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in m >>

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. >>

Quotations about Portraits

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unques >>

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the sm >>

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would hav >>

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.

Sargent, John Singer