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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
1905-, British Novelist
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: there's another dog.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet
I hate to
paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in
my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his
youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity
deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute.
Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that
are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.
-- John Singer Sargent
1856-1925, American Artist
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
1856-1900, British Author,
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