Francis Bacon Quotes
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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
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When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
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Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
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Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
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The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this - that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.
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Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say. 'Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.'
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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
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The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
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It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.
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The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
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[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.
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Aristotle… a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.