Quote

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

Francis Bacon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
Francis
Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
Ideas
Hundreds
Find
Images
Look
Details
Looks
Help
Contrasting
Different
Rather
Pinch
Like
Artist
Realise
People
Helping
Plates
Also
Realising

More quotes by Francis Bacon

Image
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
Francis Bacon
Image
But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Francis Bacon
Image
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
Francis Bacon
Image
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon
Image
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.
Francis Bacon
Image
Nothing is to be feared but fear.
Francis Bacon
Image
Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
Francis Bacon
Image
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Francis Bacon
Image
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
Francis Bacon
Image
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
Image
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon
Image
The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
Francis Bacon
Image
Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
Francis Bacon
Image
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis Bacon
Image
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.
Francis Bacon
Image
Human knowledge and human power meet in one for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Francis Bacon
Image
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
Francis Bacon
Image
There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
Francis Bacon
Image
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon
Image
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
Francis Bacon