About Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1st Lord Verulam, PC (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued the importance of natural philosophy, guided by scientific method, and...
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.