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 Hard features every bungler can command:
 To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.  
 Hard features every bungler can command:
 To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. 
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
I mix them with my brains, sir.
I mix them with my brains, sir.
And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.
And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.
 "Paint me as I am," said Cromwell,
 "Rough with age and gashed with wars;
  Show my visage read more 
 "Paint me as I am," said Cromwell,
 "Rough with age and gashed with wars;
  Show my visage as you find it,
   Less than truth my soul abhors." 
 If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio 
and the learned babble of the sale-room and read more 
 If they could forget for a moment the correggiosity of Correggio 
and the learned babble of the sale-room and varnishing 
Auctioneer. 
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
 A flattering painter, who made it his care
 To draw men as they ought to be, not as they read more 
 A flattering painter, who made it his care
 To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.