Gilbert Stuart quotes

Gilbert Stuart quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.”
-- Gilbert Stuart

Source : Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.6, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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“Paint what you see and look with your own eyes.”
-- Gilbert Stuart

Source : Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.60, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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