Francis Bacon Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Illustration Quotes

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

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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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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

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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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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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

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