Francis Bacon Quotes

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

Ecstasy and beauty are eternal.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

I think beauty can be everywhere.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet without realizing it, each day each one of us is visited by beauty. When you actually listen to people, it is surprising how often beauty is mentioned. A world without beauty would be unbearable.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

'Flower' is about the sublime.

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.

Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

I am a thing of beauty.

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.