Admiration 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 painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

— Barry Webster

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of…

— William Scott

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

— Walter Darby Bannard

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

— Walter Hagen

Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has…

— Hans Arp

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

— Michel de Montaigne

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

— Pablo Picasso