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Quote by Francis Bacon
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or disple

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. – Francis Bacon

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We have art in order not to die of the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. – David Hockney

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. – Cyril Connolly

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Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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