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The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Der Mensch ist für mich ein Wesen, das nur durch paradoxe, komödiantische Mittel, Formen, dargestellt werden kann, denn der Mensch geht nicht auf wie eine Rechnung, und wo der Mensch so aufgeht, ist die Rechnung sicher gefälscht.
Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.
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.