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
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.
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?
return looks painting
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.
inspiration needs paint
You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.
painting interpretation
Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...
art painting painter
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
want painting accuracy
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.
thinking chance painter
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
patterns canvas painting
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.
painting nervous paint
We only have our nervous system to paint.
passion painting pleasure
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.