John Singer Sargent Quotes
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. 
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I have now got a bombproof shelter [the Continent] into which I retire when I sniff the coming portrait or its trajectory.
- John Singer Sargent
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.
- John Singer Sargent