“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
(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short. — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
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
“If love tasted like pork, and you were allergic to Francis Bacon, could I be your Shakespeare? We could make love on… — Jarod Kintz 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
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
“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
“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
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
“The mind must be passive and in some sense featureless so as not to distort what comes into it. If it interferes… — Lee Braver 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, once it has adopted opinions, either because they were already accepted and believed, or because it likes them, draws… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than… — Kevin Hearne 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Being also a poet, he put Francis Bacon into doggerel: You glorify Nature and meditate on her; Why not domesticate her and… — Will Durant 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
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
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
![“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/i/fdd/paul-laffoley-7077_company_look-at-all-the-stuff-the-existentialist_1903239.jpg)
