Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis BaconThey who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
Francis BaconSome artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.
Francis BaconVelazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.
Francis BaconLove and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
Francis BaconThe first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.
Francis Bacon