Francis Bacon Quotes
Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.
There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.