1 They paint in order to try and look young.
2 Of course, he had a wonderful genius for painting.
3 When I am painting, I can't think of anything else.
4 I have never been in better form for painting than I am to-day.
5 "I want the Dorian Gray I used to paint," said the artist sadly.
6 But a man can paint like Velasquez and yet be as dull as possible.
7 It is not merely that I paint from him, draw from him, sketch from him.
8 Yes," he continued, turning round and taking his handkerchief out of his pocket; "his painting had quite gone off.
9 The carnations of the painting had withered, but the eyes were still wonderful in their depth and brilliancy of colour.
10 You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant.
11 There were no signs of any change when he looked into the actual painting, and yet there was no doubt that the whole expression had altered.
12 Parker has brought out the drinks, and if you stay any longer in this glare, you will be quite spoiled, and Basil will never paint you again.
13 Since then, his work was that curious mixture of bad painting and good intentions that always entitles a man to be called a representative British artist.
14 One day, a fatal day I sometimes think, I determined to paint a wonderful portrait of you as you actually are, not in the costume of dead ages, but in your own dress and in your own time.
15 After about a quarter of an hour Hallward stopped painting, looked for a long time at Dorian Gray, and then for a long time at the picture, biting the end of one of his huge brushes and frowning.
16 But now and then a complex personality took the place and assumed the office of art, was indeed, in its way, a real work of art, life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.
17 Well, after a few days the thing left my studio, and as soon as I had got rid of the intolerable fascination of its presence, it seemed to me that I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good-looking and that I could paint.
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