Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . .… — 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
