Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.
Francis BaconAs the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis BaconWe read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Francis Bacon