One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.
Francis BaconThe errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
Francis BaconThe creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
Francis BaconI paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Francis BaconThe human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.
Francis Bacon