Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.
Francis BaconA man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
Francis BaconPictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis BaconIt's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.
Francis Bacon