Francis Bacon Quotes about Painting

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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

Francis Bacon

Painting, Interpretation

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

Francis Bacon

Patterns, Painting, Canvas

Sir John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon (1967). “Bacon”

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Francis Bacon

Passion, Painting, Pleasure

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

Francis Bacon

Looks, Return, Painting

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

Painting, Select, Accidents

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

Francis Bacon

Communication, Doe, Painting

David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Francis Bacon

Art, Painting, Painter

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Francis Bacon

Painting, Nervous, Paint

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

Francis Bacon

Want, Painting, Accuracy

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

Francis Bacon

Art, Painting

Francis Bacon Quotes about Painting

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