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Painting Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
- Eloquence is the painting of thought ...
- How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
- How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
- How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
- Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
- Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington.
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