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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

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others. – Oscar Wilde

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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. – Pablo Picasso

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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

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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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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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