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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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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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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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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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