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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

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I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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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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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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