Francis Bacon Quotes, Illustration Quotes, Drawing Quotes

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

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All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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God loveth the clean.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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The worst men often give the best advice.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

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