Blaise Pascal Quotes About Painting

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

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

  • Eloquence is the painting of thought.

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

    Pensees no. 74 (1658)
  • What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

  • Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

    Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.21, Lulu.com
  • Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

    "Pensées", XXIV. 88 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 219-220), 1922.
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Blaise Pascal

  • Born: June 19, 1623
  • Died: August 19, 1662
  • Occupation: Mathematician