Now the artist, if he is truly an artist, does not take any one of these special views.

Suppose he should copy you as you appear to the man who wants your name to a subscription-list, you could hardly expect a friend who entertains you to recognize the likeness to the smiling face which sheds its radiance at his board.

Even within your own family, I am afraid there is a face which the rich uncle knows, that is not so familiar to the poor relation.

The artist must take one or the other, or something compounded of the two, or something different from either.

What the daguerreotype and photograph do is to give the features and one particular look, the very look which kills all expression, that of self-consciousness.