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" Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. "

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" In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. "

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