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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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I believe in deeply ordered chaos

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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