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If you can talk about it, why paint it?

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
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Philosopher
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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
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The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
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A little science estranges a man from God a lot of science brings him back.
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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
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Reading maketh a full man and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
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You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
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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?.
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My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.
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The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
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