Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire. -John Singer Sargent

 

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.


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This quote is just one of 9 total John Singer Sargent quotes in our collection. John Singer Sargent is known for saying 'Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.' as well as some of the following quotes.

To work is to pray.

John Singer Sargent
242

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
226
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
210

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent
205

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

John Singer Sargent
164
Mine is the horny hand of toil. -John Singer Sargent
145

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

John Singer Sargent
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