Francis Bacon Quotes, Art Quotes

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

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Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

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The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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