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...
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.