Communication Quote by Francis Bacon

“He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people he had…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There were times when he confronted his own image as a man confronts an empty valley, and the vision propelled him forward again to…

— John le Carré

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

— Ernest Hemingway

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a…

— Baruch Spinoza

“...he knew of the innermost danger of all artists, he knew the utter loneliness of the man destined to be an artist, he knew…

— Hermann Broch

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

“...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence…

— Patti Smith

“After a while he became disagreeably affected by the sight of the roadway thronged with vehicles and of the pavement crowded with men and…

— Joseph Conrad

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that…

— Oscar Wilde

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of…

— Diane Ackerman

“Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability…

— Clifford D. Simak