Dostoyevsky

"You know... photographs are only very rarely good likenesses, and one knows why. It's because the original, I mean each one of us, is only very rarely a good likeness of himself. Only at rare moments does a human face express its chief feature, its most characteristic idea. An artist can study a face and gauge its main idea, though at the moment he copies it, it might not be on the face at all."


May 26, 2000