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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly (Francis Bacon Quotes)
There be many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth (Francis Bacon Quotes)
I think that was very important to Bacon... Personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove (Francis Bacon Quotes)
My early paintings weren’t that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own (Francis Bacon Quotes)
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it’s what Yeats called the fascination with what’s difficult. I’m only trying to do what I can’t do (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I’ve also stood in front of those same paintings with people who’ve said, ‘let’s get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.’ I have lingered, of course (Francis Bacon Quotes)
There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him Was your mother never at Rome? He answered No Sir; but my father was (Francis Bacon Quotes)
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting (Francis Bacon Quotes)
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation (Francis Bacon Quotes)
You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable (Francis Bacon Quotes)
(Francis) Bacon’s best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men-the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It is rightly laid down that ‘true knowledge is knowledge by causes’. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Painting is the pattern of one’s own nervous system being projected on canvas (Francis Bacon Quotes)
I don’t believe art is available; it’s rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated. (Francis Bacon Quotes)