A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
Francis BaconIt's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
Francis BaconThe human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
Francis Bacon