Francis-bacon Quotes

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence ...

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and disc...

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our exi...

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to comman...

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a ...

The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motiv...