Admire Quote by Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

— Blaise Pascal

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

— Blaise Pascal

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

— Blaise Pascal

Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

— Walter Darby Bannard

There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show…

— Kehinde Wiley

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

— Immanuel Kant

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

— Joshua Reynolds

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

— Paul Klee

“A painter must never be satisfied with what he sees—painting reality means surrendering to it,”

— Saša Stanišić

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way…

— Paul Klee

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde