Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artis…

Oscar Wilde
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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