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:
Cinema
[Triptychs] are the things I Iike doing the most, and I think this may be related to the thought I’ve sometimes had of making a film.
You know, I’ve often said to myself that I would have liked to have been a film director if I hadn’t been a painter.
(translated from French)
During the silent era, the image had tremendous force.
(translated from French)
I was certainly, when I was much younger, influenced by the films of Eisenstein, and then after that I was very influenced by films of Buñuel . . . I can’t say how they directly affected me but they certainly have affected my whole attitude to visual things.
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