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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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire

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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Education is the art of making man ethical. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – Horace Walpole

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