Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Francis Bacon More Quotes by Francis Bacon More Quotes From Francis Bacon The place of justice is a hallowed place. Francis Bacon earsjustice Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous. Francis Bacon praisecommonpeople When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. Francis Bacon paintingpleasurepassion It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. Francis Bacon crocodilesatheismtears In charity there is no excess. Francis Bacon excessinspirationinspirational It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below. Francis Bacon truthadventurelying We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. Francis Bacon philosophicalwritingphilosophy I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can. Francis Bacon nervousperfectiontrying He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age. Francis Bacon decayplotage 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. Francis Bacon portraitsphotographytaken It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives Francis Bacon errorsunderstandingthinking Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas. Francis Bacon canvaspaintingpatterns We only have our nervous system to paint. Francis Bacon nervouspaintingpaint Boldness is a child of ignorance Francis Bacon boldnessignorancechildren A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune. Francis Bacon depressingmenhands Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Francis Bacon wisewittyphilosophy The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own. Francis Bacon juiceamberbees A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made. Francis Bacon kingsknowledgethinking If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma. Francis Bacon portraiturepeoplelooks It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried. Francis Bacon fancyselfmean
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