The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
Francis BaconThings alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis BaconThe desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
Francis BaconTravel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon