Francis Bacon Quotes
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
Walead Beshty
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Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.
Ulrich Beck
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I like creating images.
Kate Moss
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Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.
Linus Torvalds
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The best advice I ever received is that there is a difference between urgency and importance: Urgent tasks seem important, but they're not. Important things need to get done.
Chieh Huang
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I grew up in a household where there were really, really strong matriarchal characters. I think that's true of many Asian households. People tend to think of Asia as a misogynistic society or a society where men rule. At least in my experience, the women rule the household; the women rule the social scene. The men often become very useless.
Kevin Kwan
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for nothing about it could be called normal: most of it was absurd, and if not absurd, then appalling.
W. G. Sebald
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Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.
Edmund Leach
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
Gaston Bachelard
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I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.
Angela Davis
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If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
Kanye West
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I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.
Anthony Quinn
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The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Cultivate prompt, exact, unquestioning, joyous obedience to every command that it is evident from its context applies to you. Be on the lookout for new orders from your King. Blessing lies in the direction of obedience to them. God's commands are but signboards that mark the road to present success and blessedness and to eternal glory.
R. A. Torrey
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I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
William Faulkner
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I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.
Steven Spielberg
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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
Francis Bacon
