Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. -John Singer Sargent

 

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.


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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 'Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.' as well as some of the following quotes.

To work is to pray.

John Singer Sargent

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

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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

John Singer Sargent

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

John Singer Sargent