Quotes with originals

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• History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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• An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

  Man Ray
  American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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• How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!

  Pensees (1669)

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• reproduction
• resemblance
• admiration
• imitations
• reproduce
• painting

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