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"The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice."
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"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."
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