John Singer Sargent (; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
—James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.