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.
Francis BaconThe genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
Francis BaconOne of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.
Francis BaconThe dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
Francis Bacon