Francis Bacon Quotes, Photography Quotes, Taken Quotes

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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Reading maketh a full man.

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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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