It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
Francis BaconMen leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.
Francis BaconThe natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
Francis BaconSalomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
Francis Bacon