Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. …

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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 (2004). The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings, p.316, Penguin
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