Knows Quotes by Francis Bacon

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

— Francis Bacon

To know truly is to know by causes.

— Francis Bacon

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

— Francis Bacon

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose…

— Francis Bacon

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

— Francis Bacon

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy…

— Francis Bacon

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

— Francis Bacon

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to…

— Francis Bacon

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that…

— Francis Bacon

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to…

— Francis Bacon

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things…

— Francis Bacon

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of…

— Francis Bacon

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint.…

— Francis Bacon

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed…

— Francis Bacon

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is…

— Francis Bacon

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to…

— Francis Bacon

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five…

— Francis Bacon

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent:…

— Francis Bacon

But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for…

— Francis Bacon

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but…

— Francis Bacon

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you…

— Francis Bacon

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to…

— Francis Bacon