I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it. - John Singer Sargent

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John Singer Sargent: "I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it."

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Acute	Another	Believe	Besides
Better	Colorsense	Deserts	Dexterity
Enough	Exactions	Forty	Hate
Hope	Inseparable	Kind	Life
Manual	Paint	Personal	Portrait
Portraits	Portraiture	Right	Stand
Youth

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