Tag: Francis Bacon

Patience has its limits…

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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. -John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? -William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Abused patience turns to fury. -Thomas Fuller (1608 – 1661) Endurance is patience concentrated. -Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881) To… Continue reading Patience has its limits…

The most seductive thing about art…

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.-Henry Ward Beecher (1813 – 1887) Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.-Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) Every artist writes his own autobiography.-Henry Havelock Ellis (1859 – 1939) An… Continue reading The most seductive thing about art…