Best painting & originals Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

Painting Exciting Originals Admire Vain Admiration Resemblance

Author:Blaise Pascal

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

Painting Originals Vanity Vain Reproducing

Author:Blaise Pascal

“It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.”

Would Be Study Nice Painting Masters Europe Originals Being Nice

Author:E. J. Hughes

“If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right sort, gives something that neither a photograph nor a view of the tree conveys. It emphasizes something of character, quality, individuality. We are not lost in looking at thorns and defects; we catch a vision of the grandeur and beauty of a king of the forest.”

“Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.”

Way Giving Book Done Painting Revolution Birth Originals Bunch Bread Everlasting Juice Tobacco Carrots

Author:Paul Cezanne

“He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.”

Wells Would Be Together Painting Masters Theory Draws Originals Copies

Book:Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

“You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.”

World Trying White Pieces Painting Originals Purity Canvas Imagery

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.”

Ifs Hard Used Study Taken Painting Originals Drawing Painter Used To Be Granted Museums Cartoon Cartoonist Taken For Granted

Author:Bill Watterson

“Painting myself for others, I have painted my inward self with colors clearer than my original ones. I have no more made my book than my book has made me--a book consubstantial with its author, concerned with my own self, an integral part of my life; not concerned with some third-hand, extraneous purpose, like all other books.”

Made Book Self Hands Purpose My Own Color Painting Concerned Thirds Originals Inward

Book:The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

“Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.”

People Humans Important Human Beings Cases Painting Originals Encounters Copies Imitation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.”

Needs Littles Book Painting Originals Manuscripts

Author:Rene Magritte

“The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.”

Knows Men World Art Space Painting Photography Stones Originals Filled Painter Variety Clash Mortgage Tokens Suffocating Lease

Author:Sherrie Levine

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