Francis Bacon Quotes
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You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.
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For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.
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They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
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Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
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God loveth the clean.
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I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.
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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.
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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.