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"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
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"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."
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"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."
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"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."
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