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Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 22

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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

Cat, England, Deceit

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Body, Cleanliness, Reverence

Francis Bacon (1857). “Works of Francis Bacon: 3”, p.377

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

Matter, Way

1625 Essays, no.15,'Of Seditions and Troubles'.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Funny, Family, Important

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Paint, Ifs

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

Wisdom

"The Wisdom of the Ancients". Book by Francis Bacon, 1609.

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

Love, Friendly, Mankind

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

Men, World, Bubbles

'The World' (1629)

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.

Knowledge, Despair, Portraits

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

Science, Understanding, Enquiry

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

Way, Suits, Secrecy

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

Order, Understanding, Degrees

Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.13, Jazzybee Verlag

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Death, Children, Science

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

Garden, Essentials, Pleasure

Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

Nice, Knowledge, Science

Francis Bacon (1858). “The Works”, p.48

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Pleasure, Danger, Peril

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.102

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.

Art, Believe, Magic

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

Knowledge, Finals, Four

Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.114

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.

Photography, Taken, Portraits

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Painting, Nervous, Paint

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

Friendship, Heart, Mind Your Own Business

Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.49, 谷月社

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Sticks, Calumny

"Partitions of the Sciences". Book by Francis Bacon, 1623.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Rebellion, Worst, Belly

Francis Bacon (2014). “The Essays of Francis Bacon”, p.44, Lulu Press, Inc

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Wisdom, Men, Evil

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.

Interesting, Abstract Painting, Levels

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