John Singer Sargent: In Their Own Words

Quotes on art and life

"I suppose it is the best thing I have done."

John Singer Sargent, letter to Edward Robinson, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 8, 1916, offering Madame X to the museum (quoted in the Met's "How Madame X Came to the Met") 1916

"I should prefer, on account of the row I had with the lady years ago, that this picture should not be called by her name."

John Singer Sargent, in the same 1916 letter to Edward Robinson (quoted in the Met's "How Madame X Came to the Met") 1916

"No more paughtraits."