Loveless Artist

He is a painter and has painted portraits all his life, but he has never smiled in his paintings. Critics called him cold and unloving, and he never defended himself. Before he died, he asked his students to open the locked cabinet in the studio, which was filled with portraits of the same little girl - smiling, crying, angry, and coquettish. Only then did the student learn that his daughter was abducted when she was three years old. He had been painting her for fifty years. The daughter in the painting grew up day by day, just like he imagined. He closed his eyes and said, "Who says there is no love? The daughter in my painting is fifty-three this year."