“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”
and
“Every time I paint a portrait, I lose a friend.”
Sadly, a lot of the time it appears that he is right. With the first quote, anyway. I have not lost a friend, yet, that I know of, and I don’t know that Sargent did, either. But, I have never, yet, gotten a mouth right. LOL!
exists to create art which reflects the beauty and the glory of God, to use art to comfort and encourage people, and to inspire others to pursue the arts. 