Bacon Quotations
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
Francis Bacon
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Crucifixion and Death
I have always been very moved by pictures about slaughterhouses and meat, and to me they belong very much to the whole thing of the Crucifixion.
It is a magnificent armature on which you can hang all types of feeling and sensation.
You’re working then about your own feelings and sensations. You might say it’s almost nearer to a self-portrait. You are working on all sorts of very private feelings about behaviour and about the way life is.
Death can be life-enhancing.
I have the feeling of mortality all the time… I’m always surprised when I wake up in the morning.
Life and death go hand in hand… Death is like the shadow of life, the idea of death pursues you.
(translated from French)
The more strongly you feel about life, the more strongly you must be aware of death.
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