Bacon Quotations
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
Francis Bacon
A selection of Bacon quotations on:
A selection of Bacon quotations on:
His Perception of Life
I’m profoundly optimistic about nothing.
[Nietzsche] told us it’s all so meaningless we might as well be extraordinary.
We are born and we die, but in between we give this purposeless existence a meaning by our drives.
I always thought of friendship as where two people really tear one another apart and perhaps in that way learn something from one another.
Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.
We nearly always live through screens – a screened existence. And I sometimes think, when people say my work looks violent, that perhaps I have from time to time been able to clear away one or two of the veils or screens.
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