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
powerful wine passion
Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.
art men games
You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.
artist ideas people
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.
ice weight chance
In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
science tree branches
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.
invention knows
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
people canvas paint
I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.
believe chaos i-believe
I believe in deeply ordered chaos
luck intuition stuff
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.
painting select preserves
All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
paint mediums knows
It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.
regret paint starting
I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.
paint ifs
If you can talk about it, why paint it?
ideas photograph triggers
Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.