Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis BaconIf you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
Francis BaconI feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
Francis Bacon