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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon
Happiness, Beauty, Art
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Francis Bacon
Life, Art, Winning

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

Francis Bacon
Art, Attitude, People
Hugh Marlais Davies, Francis Bacon (2001). “Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953”, Museum of Contemporary Art San

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Francis Bacon
Fashion, Art, Realizing

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

Francis Bacon
Art, Men, Games

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

Francis Bacon
Art, Science, Men
Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.132, Lulu.com

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

Francis Bacon
Art, Modesty, Wells
Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.478

Art is man added to Nature.

Francis Bacon
Art, Nature, Men

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Francis Bacon
Art, Painting, Painter

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

Francis Bacon
Art, Nature, Freedom
Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.82, Hackett Publishing

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Francis Bacon
Art, Magic, Secret
"The Encyclopedia of science fiction: an illustrated A to Z". Book by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, p. 376, 1979.

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
Art, Believe, Magic

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

Francis Bacon
Art, Order, Desire
Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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

Francis Bacon
Art, Painting

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

Francis Bacon
Art, Men, Self
Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.334

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

Francis Bacon
Art, Freedom, Doe
David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

Francis Bacon
Education, Art, Science
The Advancement of Learning Bk IV, Ch. II

I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

Francis Bacon
Art, Thinking, Trying
Francis Bacon (1987). “Francis Bacon: Retrospektive”

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