John Singer Sargent

“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”

“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.”

“I do not judge, I only chronicle.”

“Mine is the horny hand of toil.”

“'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before...”

“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 certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.”