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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

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Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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Wonder is the seed of knowledge

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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

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Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

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Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

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