Francis Bacon Quotes About Accidents

Quotes about: Accidents

• I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Thinking, Chance, Painter

  Francis Bacon (1983). “フランシス・ベーコン”

• Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

  Francis Bacon

  Circles, Medicine, Disease

  "Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis".

• My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Men, Mind

  Francis Bacon (1824). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England”, p.123

• All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

  Francis Bacon

  Painting, Select, Accidents

• It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

  Francis Bacon

  Opportunity, Men, Hands

• I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Want, Chance, Accidents

  Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].”, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

• You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

  Francis Bacon

  Want, Painting, Accuracy

• No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Science, Understanding

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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