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You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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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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That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.
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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
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