A Quote by Francis Bacon

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

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Accident Also Because Chooses Must Painting Part Preserve Select

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real.

Paul Virilio

The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.

Bertrand Russell

You look at the U.S. budget deficit, and you cannot help but feel that this is a serious accident waiting to happen. And not just a serious U.S. accident, but a serious global accident.

Charles Dallara

I'm sure I've been in an accident because I'm wild and crazy and go too fast, but I don't remember having an accident.

Jan-Michael Vincent

Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it’s just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.

Paul Budnitz

It was certainly an accident, an accident caused by a series of circumstances and coincidences

Gianfranco Fini

I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!

Edie Sedgwick

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

Ralph Steadman

I ripped all the cartilage out of my hip in a water ski jumping accident. I am a bit accident prone.

Chesney Hawkes

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."

Helen Mirren

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

John Berger

I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident

Jackson Pollock

With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.

Jackson Pollock

The earth was probably born by accident; but, in accordance with one of the most general laws of evolution, scarcely had this accident happened than it was immediately made use of and recast into something naturally directed.