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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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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Doubt
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. – Alfred Tonnelle

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Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist. – Terri Guillemets

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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, thats what I love. – Salma Hayek

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If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose Id have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I havent even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. – John Dos Passos

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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. – Origen

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Vision looks upward and becomes faith. – Stephen Samuel Wise

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door thats unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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