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"Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes."
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"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
"I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me."
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