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> [No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-fry/no-one-who-has-a-real-understanding-of-the-art-of-painting-attaches/)

[Roger Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-fry/)

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## More by Roger Fry

> [Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-fry/bach-almost-persuades-me-to-be-a-christian/)

[Roger Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-fry/)

> [Perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure in scientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-fry/perhaps-the-highest-pleasure-in-art-is-identical-with-the-highest/)

[Roger Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-fry/)

> [First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-fry/first-i-have-a-think-and-then-i-put-a-line-around-it/)

[Roger Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-fry/)

> [No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-fry/no-one-who-has-a-real-understanding-of-the-art-of-painting-attaches/)

[Roger Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-fry/)

> [“J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-fry/j-s-bach-almost-persuades-me-to-be-a-christian/)

[Roger Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-fry/)

> [None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-fry/none-the-less-perhaps-the-highest-pleasure-in-art-is-identical-with/)

[Roger Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-fry/)

> [Art is significant deformity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-fry/art-is-significant-deformity/)

[Roger Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-fry/)

> [The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-fry/the-painting-is-always-conceived-as-the-linear-record-of-a-rhythmic/)

[Roger Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-fry/)

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