portraiture

is the art of making a picture look exactly as you would look if you were handsomer than you are.

Portraiture is the art of making a picture look exactly as you would look if you were handsomer than you are.

is the school by which the artist is to acquire the means of perfection in his art, not the object of that perfection.

Portrait-painting may be to the painter what the practical knowledge of the world is to the poet, provided he considers it as a school by which he is to acquire the means of perfection in his art, and not as the object of that perfection.

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portraiture