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Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
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Viscount St. Alban
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As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.
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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth to use them too much for ornament is affection to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
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All will come out in the washing.
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Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
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I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.
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Nuptial love makes mankind friendly love perfects it but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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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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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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