Francis Bacon Pair Quotations

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

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