Francis-bacon Quotes

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to comman...

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a ...

The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motiv...

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence ...

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and disc...

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...