Francis Bacon Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Despair Quotes

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.

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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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

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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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