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“Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“A thousand moral paintings I can show that shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's more pregnantly than words.” William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

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