Almost all of these represent people I know or have known or studies of friends
which by some miracle turned into their own characters in art.
Some of them have left this world. Such is one fact of the Sunset years.

"Little by little God takes away human beauty:
Little by little the sapling withers.
"Go, recite. "To whom we give a length of days,
we also cause them to decline.
Seek the Spirit;
Do not set your heart on bones."

~ Rumi, Massnavi II;714-715