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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

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon

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Fear
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Francis Bacon
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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon

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Honor
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Francis Bacon
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Other Quotes from
Art
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Its great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

History develops, art stands still. – E. M. Forster

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Art

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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Art

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

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