Blaise Pascal Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

  Blaise Pascal

  Painting, Eloquence

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

• 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

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Portraits

  Blaise Pascal (2009). “Thoughts”, p.21, Lulu.com

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Vanity, Strange

• Eloquence is the painting of thought.

  Blaise Pascal

  Painting, Eloquence

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Painting, Realistic, Vain

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Admiration, Painting, Vain

  Pensees no. 74 (1658)

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Painting, Vain

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