Francis Bacon (painter)

Francis Bacon was an Anglo-Irish figurative painter, a collateral descendant of the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon. His artwork is well-known for its bold, austere, and often grotesque or nightmarish imagery

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• The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desparation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

• I did not know what half of them meant.
  • On his paintings.

The man is simply another animal in a godless world