Gilbert Stuart
Quotations

"Anapathy seemed to seize him and a vacuity spread over his countenance, most appalling to paint."

- On George Washington

 

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

 

"In England my efforts were compared with those of Van Dyck, Titian, and other great painters -- here they are compared with the works of the Almighty!"