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Oscar Wilde

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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