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Quote by Anthony Powell
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anythin

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

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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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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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