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![When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal - like Francis Bacon’s screaming pope, or Edvard Munch with [The Scream] Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/995/994930/994930.webp "When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal - like Francis Bacon’s screaming pope, or Edvard Munch with [The Scream] Picture Quote #1")
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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man’s life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure (Francis Bacon Quotes)
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
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. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It’s not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don’t forget things like that. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The main importance of Francis Bacon’s influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal - like Francis Bacon’s screaming pope, or Edvard Munch with [The Scream]. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
The suspect nature of these stories can be seen in the anecdote Jefferson told of Hamilton visiting his lodging in 1792 and inquiring about three portraits on the wallThey are my trinity of the three greatest men the world has ever produced, Jefferson replied: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, and John Locke. Hamilton supposedly replied, The greatest man that ever lived was Julius Casar. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs. (Francis Bacon Quotes)
It is a great happiness when men’s professions and their inclinations accord (Francis Bacon Quotes)
Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. (Francis Bacon Quotes)