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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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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. – Charles Dickens

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Men
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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. – Charles Dickens

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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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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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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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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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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. – Joseph Addison

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Theres an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim – the album with The Girl From Ipanema. Thats the most seductive music ever. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present. – Aneurin Bevan

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