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All Quotes by author - 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. "
Light
Person
Way
" A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth. "
Mouth
Portrait
Painting
" Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. "
Paint
Lose
Friend
" I do not judge, I only chronicle. "
Judge
Chronicle
Only
" '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 him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision). "
Name
Vision
Test
" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "
Thought
Certain
Talent
" Mine is the horny hand of toil. "
Toil
Horny
Hand
" 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 part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. "
Habit
Back
Book
" You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. "
You
Art
Curiosity
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