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1. "I do not judge, I only chronicle." ~ John Singer Sargent

2. "You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh." ~ John Singer Sargent

3. "A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth." ~ John Singer Sargent

4. "Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend." ~ John Singer Sargent

5. "Mine is the horny hand of toil." ~ John Singer Sargent

6. "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." ~ John Singer Sargent

7. "'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

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