If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
