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The human understanding, from...

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Some paint comes across direc...

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

The divisions of science are ...

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Virtue is like precious odour...

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

The breath of flowers is far ...

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Libraries are as the shrine w...

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

To spend too much time in stu...

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Those that want friends to op...

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

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Man seeketh in society comfor...

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

I don't believe art is availa...

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Painting is a duality and abs...

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Men seem neither to understan...

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Hurl your calumnies boldly; s...

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

In Philosophy, the contemplat...

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.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

I regret not starting to pain...

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

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

I've had photographs taken fo...

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

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I want to make portraits and ...

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

But by far the greatest obsta...

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

It cannot be that axioms esta...

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

For friends... do but look up...

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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