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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

Francis Bacon
Passion, Artist, Despair

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

Francis Bacon
Passion, Painting, Pleasure

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

Francis Bacon
Real, Passion, Heart
Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.94

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

Francis Bacon
Powerful, Passion, Wine
"Temperance Essays And Selections From Different Authors". Book edited by Edward C. Delavan, 1865.

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

Francis Bacon
Passion, Artist, Feelings

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