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I would live to study, not stu...

I would live to study, not study to live.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Painting is a duality and abst...

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

I don't think people are born ...

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Some paint comes across direct...

Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

It's always hopeless to talk a...

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

If you want to convey fact, th...

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Very few people have a natural...

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Before I start painting I have...

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

I would like, in my arbitrary ...

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

You could say that I have no i...

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

I have to hope that my instinc...

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Everybody has his own interpre...

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

I want to make portraits and i...

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.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

I don't believe art is availab...

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Velazquez found the perfect ba...

Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Some artists leave remarkable ...

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

The mystery lies in the irrati...

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Great art is deeply ordered. E...

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

We only have our nervous syste...

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Painting is the pattern of one...

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

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