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“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are!……”
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Harry, said Basil,looking him straight in the face, every portrait that is painted with a 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.The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown it in the secret of my own soul.
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