Make The Best Of An Emergency.

I Hate To Paint Portraits! I Hope Never To Paint Another Portrait In My Life. Portraiture May Be All Right For A Man In His Youth, But After Forty I Believe That Manual Dexterity Deserts One, And, Besides, The Color-sense Is Less Acute. Youth Can Better Stand The Exactions Of A Personal Kind That Are Inseparable From Portraiture. I Have Had Enough Of It.

A Portrait Is A Painting With Something Wrong With The Mouth.

A Portrait Is A Picture In Which There Is Just A Tiny Little Something Not Quite Right About The Mouth.

Make The Best Of An Emergency.

Color Is An Inborn Gift, But Appreciation Of Value Is Merely Training Of The Eye, Which Everyone Ought To Be Able To Acquire.