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“I 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.”

“Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon”

“Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence - tearing away the veils that fact acquires through time.”

“I painted to be loved.”

“The Francis Bacon Estate”

“Painting is the pattern of one’s own nervous system being projected on canvas.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements."

— George Pólya

Mathematics1887–1985

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"The party uses the lies up to the last breath as a cover-up. Thus it intimidates the political opponents and provides its party comrade with sedatives. It is so unbelievably simple for the current gan…"

— Friedrich Kellner

1885–1970

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"Since 1954, the raw speed of computers, as measured by the time it takes to do an addition, increased by a factor of 10,000. That means an algorithm that once took 10 minutes to perform can now be don…"

— Maurice Wilkes

Mathematics1913–2010

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"When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them — without distortion which would mar their exact significances — into an intense e…"

— William Carlos Williams

poetry1883–1963

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