More quotes by Francis Bacon

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake..."
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."