Francis Bacon Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

  Francis Bacon

  Revenge, Fear, Grief

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

• When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

  Francis Bacon

  Passion, Painting, Pleasure

• A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Passion, Heart

  Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.94

• Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

  Francis Bacon

  Powerful, Passion, Wine

  "Temperance Essays And Selections From Different Authors". Book edited by Edward C. Delavan, 1865.

• I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

  Francis Bacon

  Passion, Artist, Feelings

• An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

  Francis Bacon

  Passion, Artist, Despair

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