Francis Bacon Quotes about Art

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'
Hugh Marlais Davies, Francis Bacon (2001). “Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953”, Museum of Contemporary Art San
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 (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.478
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.
"The Encyclopedia of science fiction: an illustrated A to Z". Book by John Clute and Peter Nicholls, p. 376, 1979.
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
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
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
David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon
The Advancement of Learning Bk IV, Ch. II