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

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?. – Francis Bacon

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Problems
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – Francis Bacon

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Innovation
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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. – Leonardo da Vinci

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When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process. – Jim Hodges

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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. – Henry Moore

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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when its simply necessary to love. – Claude Monet

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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun

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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. – Hannah Arendt

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A woman should be an illusion. – Ian Fleming

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I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear. – Billy Sunday

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