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title: "6 Old Paintings Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-rauschenberg/i-m-sure-we-don-t-read-old-paintings-the-way-they-were-intended/)

[Robert Rauschenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-rauschenberg/)

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> [“A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-goncharov/a-lover-of-comfort-might-shrug-after-looking-at-the-whole-apparent/)

[Ivan Goncharov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-goncharov/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9be/ivan-goncharov-16673_beauty_a-lover-of-comfort-might-shrug-after-loo_480587.jpg)

> [I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-baselitz/i-love-my-old-paintings-as-postulates-as-fresh-starting-points-but-i/)

[Georg Baselitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-baselitz/)

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> [I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ragnar-kjartansson/i-had-a-total-revelation-with-the-feminist-moment-with-carolee/)

[Ragnar Kjartansson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ragnar-kjartansson/)

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> [The Internet is a crazy archive of a lot of old everything. Paintings, drawings, old, new, and everything in between.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/borns/the-internet-is-a-crazy-archive-of-a-lot-of-old-everything-paintings/)

[Borns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/borns/)

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> [“In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adalbert-stifter/in-the-old-pieces-of-furniture-almost-as-in-the-old-paintings-dwells/)

[Adalbert Stifter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adalbert-stifter/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c2/adalbert-stifter-32633_ageing_in-the-old-pieces-of-furniture-almost-as_1496073.jpg)

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