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 BaconTo say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
Francis BaconThe nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
Francis BaconNo artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
Francis BaconYou see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.
Francis BaconThe human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.
Francis Bacon