But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author. — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians,… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
“Francis Bacon somewhere remarks that politeness veils vice just as dress masks wrinkles.” — John Doran Copy Share Image
The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I get creeped out by Francis Bacon's paintings, and I can't say exactly why. They're all really disturbing, and there is an… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I don't know who made up this sort of greatest-hits list for artists. If one artist isn't moving forward anymore, then it's… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
“For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind… — Bacon, Francis Copy Share Image
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“Francis Bacon once remarked that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“He agreed with Francis Bacon: Old friends to trust, old wood to burn, old authors to read.” — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
“Solomon saith: There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there.… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts,” said Francis Bacon, “but if he will be content to… — Alan Cutler Copy Share Image
I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving. — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
“talking about clear minds writing in clear language—the predictions of Saint Augustine, Sir Francis Bacon, Newton, Einstein, the list goes on and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
“The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The human understanding, once it has adopted opinions, either because they were already accepted and believed, or because it likes them, draws… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works… — Bill Hirst Copy Share Image
“as Francis Bacon put it more than four centuries ago, is that “the mind can be enlarged, according to its capacity, to… — T.K.V. Desikachar Copy Share Image
You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
