“Tout portrait qu'on peint avec âme est un portrait, non du modèle, mais de l'artiste.”Le portrait de Dorian Gray
En anglais : "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself."