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John Singer Sargent
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“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.”
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: K.C. Charteris John Sargent, C. Scribener's Sons, 1927, p.125
“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).”
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)