“Every portrait painted with feeling is of the artist not the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde
I think this is true at a deep level but I don’t think that truth denies that the portrait is also about the sitter. I think it is like a crime scene. The obvious fact is the dead body or the car being missing or the house being broken into. But the deeper investigation into the event will usually lead to the person who committed the crime, not the person who the crime was against.
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