"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil." ― Francis Bacon Topic(s): Art Tags: human, momentous, thing More From Francis Bacon "We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do." "Knowledge and human power are synonymous." "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." More In Art "Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized."― James Wolcott "The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way."― Lady Gaga