• Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer 1854-1900
  

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1. portrait
2. painters
3. absolute
4. oblivion
5. anything
6. paint

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. by : Oscar Wilde

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