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" Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? "

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" He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. "

" We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. "

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