But to me I find Francis Bacon the most likely candidate to be the author. — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. — David Lynch 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
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
“Sir Francis Bacon wrote, “Reading maketh a full man … writing an exact man.” — Mike Ashcraft Copy Share Image
“Francis Bacon somewhere remarks that politeness veils vice just as dress masks wrinkles.” — John Doran Copy Share Image
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring,… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them,… — Louise Bourgeois 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
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very… — Clive Barker 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 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
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis… — Jeffrey Bernard 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
“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Albert Einstein, and John, Paul,… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
“The suspect nature of these stories can be seen in the anecdote Jefferson told of Hamilton visiting his lodging in 1792 and… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I will never get tired of looking at works by Pablo Picasso. I will never get tired of looking at work by… — Polly Allen Mellen 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
We all lose friends...we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is… — SweetangelUnknown Copy Share Image
“Francis Bacon is a good-looking young man. I don't think he has a girlfriend but I don't know. I don't think he… — James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Steve Englehart’s latest idea for Doctor Strange was appropriately zany: Strange and his lover/apprentice Clea would be whisked back in time to… — Sean Howe Copy Share Image
“The dilemma is this. In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in almost every field, that… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“In winter you wake up in this city, especially on Sundays, to the chiming of its innumerable bells, as though behind your… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether it is an act of faithfulness to her or a betrayal of the dignity she never lost,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“In 1577 there was committed to prison at Oxford a certain Rowland Jencks, a Catholic bookbinder who was accused of speaking evil… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient… — Multiple Copy Share Image
“And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially… — Kate Zambreno 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
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
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
I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the… — Mark Rylance 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
Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
![“Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other guys like that. What they were doing is depicting suffering. And that's exactly what a demon is, he's pretending that he isn't. So he can get more people down there. You…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fdd/paul-laffoley-7077_company_look-at-all-the-stuff-the-existentialist_1903239.jpg)
