If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
Francis BaconA good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
Francis BaconFor cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Francis BaconThere is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis BaconFame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis BaconThe dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
Francis Bacon