Francis Bacon Quotes, Art Quotes, Attitude Quotes

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

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Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

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Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

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In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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By far the best proof is experience.

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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