Francis Bacon Quotes, Artist Quotes, Museums Quotes

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

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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

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By far the best proof is experience.

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More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

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