Edmond De GoncourtA painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. A painting is a picture and it is not alive. It cannot think or talk. It will never say anything as ridiculous as the things we say every day.
A painting does not know or care what is right or wrong. It has no opinions, so it never hears such absurd statements as those we make every day.
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