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

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. – Francis Bacon

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Doubt
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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into mens heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. – Francis Bacon

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What is Art? It is the response of mans creative soul to the call of the Real. – Rabindranath Tagore

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What is art? Nature concentrated. – Honore de Balzac

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. – William Blake

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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But happiness is no respecter of persons. – Stephen Fry

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