"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse." ― Francis Bacon Topic(s): Art Tags: attempt, fashion More From Francis Bacon "Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses." "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience." "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." More In Art "The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such."― Og Mandino "Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."― Isaac Newton "Abstract Expressionism – the first American movement to have a worldwide influence – was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you’ll find a would-be Willem de Kooning)."― Jerry Saltz