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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivi

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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Oscar Wilde
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. – Oscar Wilde

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Be Yourself
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: theres another dog. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. – Oliver Cromwell

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Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. – Anthony Powell

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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. – Charles Dickens

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