Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KCwas an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 January 1561
library shrines saint
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'
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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.
memories shapes please
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
struggle illustration events
A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.
self portraiture done
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.
photography taken portraits
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...
perfection trying nervous
I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
painting nervous paint
We only have our nervous system to paint.
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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.
cradle goes mother sings
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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There are some other that account wife and children but as bills of charges
cry remains
What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die?