Most of us can polish a portrait, but is it honest? Does it tell the truth about the sitter? Can it stand alone as a painting?
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"A complicating aspect of realist painting is that there is much that one does not or cannot know or see, yet which is immensely, obsessively interesting—and which is ultimately the whole point of painting."