“To know truly is to know by causes.”
Source: Francis Bacon: The New Organon
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Famous Francis Bacon Quotes
“The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.”
Source: Works of Francis Bacon: 6
“Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.”
Source: The Great Instauration
Source: Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately
“The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.”
Source: The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant Sentences, Hints for Conversation and on the Choice of Good and Evil
Source: Francis Bacon
“It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.”
Source: Francis Bacon
“I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.”
Source: Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].
“You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.”
“Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.”
Source: Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].
“Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.”
Source: Bacon
“I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.”
“I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.”
Source: Francis Bacon: portraits and heads
“It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.”
Source: Bacon
Source: Francis Bacon
Source: The Great Instauration
“He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.”
Source: Novum Organum
Source: Works
“Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
Source: The Works...