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Quote by Charles Dickens
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and th

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

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How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen! – Charles Dickens

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Unrequited Love
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. – Charles Dickens

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Morning
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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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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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