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Quotes "Paint what you see and look with your own eyes."

"I copy the works of God, and leave clothes to tailors and mantua-makers."

"What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach."

"When I painted him, he had just had a set of false teeth inserted, which accounts for the constrained expression so noticeable about the mouth and lower part of the face." - speaking of George Washington




Gilbert Stuart