Francis Bacon Quotes, Superstitions Quotes

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

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