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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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. – Charles Dickens

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Crying
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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pitys small change in general society. – Charles Dickens

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Change
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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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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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Portraits

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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Taxes grow without rain. – Jewish Proverb

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Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James

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If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite. – Gordon Ramsay

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When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this ones too tall and that one doesnt have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one – theres a billion reasons not to hire somebody. – Harvey Fierstein

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