“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”
Quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
John Singer Sargent bol jeden z najúspešnejších amerických portrétistov vo svojej dobe, neskôr pôsobil skôr ako nadaný krajinkár. Sargent sa narodil vo Florencii v Taliansku americkým rodičom. Zo začiatku študoval v Taliansku a Nemecku, neskôr v Paríži u Emile Auguste Carolus-Durana. Wikipedia
“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”
Quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
Zdroj: K.C. Charteris John Sargent http://books.google.co.in/books?id=oInqAAAAMAAJ, C. Scribener's Sons, 1927, p.125
as an oculist would test his own vision
In K.C. Charteris John Sargent http://books.google.co.in/books?id=oInqAAAAMAAJ, C. Scribener's Sons, p.123