Gilbert Stuart Quotes

• Paint what you see and look with your own eyes.

  Gilbert Stuart

  Eye, Looks, Paint

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

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

  Gilbert Stuart

  Potatoes, Portraits, Peaches

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

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