Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in livi... -Francis Bacon

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Francis Bacon , Philosopher
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Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, known as one of the pioneers of the scientific method and his influential works on philosophy.

Francis Bacon Quotes to Explore

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is....
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience....
No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the t...
Wise men make more opportunities than they find....
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other....
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion....
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses....
By indignities men come to dignities....
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men....
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures....

Art Quotes to Explore

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...