Looking at their portraits, what bothered the artists was "something about the mouth which did not seem quite right.” The model was rather puzzled by the artificially pretty nose - a nose one could not breathe through - for, although she had not looked at herself, she had not doubt that she had breathed her surroundings.
“Perhaps more attention should be given to this part of the face,” she thought, “perhaps the liveliness of a body that sits still is too gentle to be perceived. Art students should dwell on the nose, very heavily - we should perhaps go back to these casts of the Nose of David, and further: these noses should make a sound - they should become flutes, or clay whistles: one should be wary of the presence of their interior.”
