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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

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Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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