Francis Bacon on art
Francis Bacon56 quotes“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
More from Francis Bacon
Wonder is the seed of knowledge.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Books must follow sciences and not sciences books.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Money is a great servant but a bad master.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis BaconFrancis Bacon
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
More on art
The mother of all the skills is to learn the art of paying attention – Remembering every step you make or anything that’s around you.
Mwanandeke KindemboMwanandeke Kindembo True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation.
HafezHafez All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair Eyes water, throat burns. Sins splattered like modern art; My ritual purge.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there now. I can’t seem to get over that line.
Viola DavisViola Davis No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.
SaadiSaadi All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore – and then there will be time enough for art.
Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair