The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
Francis BaconHe that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
Francis BaconFor the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.
Francis BaconChildren sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
Francis Bacon