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You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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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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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

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First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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