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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

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

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Superstition
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Francis Bacon
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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon

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Reality
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Art
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. – Walter Winchell

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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Art

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. – Henry Louis Gates

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Art

Well, Art is Art, isnt it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. – Groucho Marx

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When taxidermy is done well its an amazing piece of art. – Amanda Seyfried

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Im tired of love Im still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time. – Hilaire Belloc

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We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined – the impression was overwhelming. – Howard Carter

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Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad. – Dan Auerbach

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