Quotes About Francis Bacon

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Roberts had watched a documentary on Francis Bacon. He especially liked Bacon's cry when he entered a club in Soho: 'Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham friends'.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's carrying the load. Nobody here has a clue who Johannes Kepler is. All they know about Galileo is that he's a teacher who got in trouble with the Inquisition. I doubt anyone's heard of Francis Bacon. Even in Britain, nobody really knows him. He's just a guy with a funny name.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.

That such a scrap of kitsch has endured in a way that the writing of Francis Bacon has not says much about what's really timeless and what isn't; that the 1959 "Deck of Cards" was far more popular with pop audiences than with country audiences says much about who the real kitschmongers are.

When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are "so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.