Francis Bacon Painter Quotes

#1. When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.

Os Guinness

#2. I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

Francis Bacon

#3. It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

Martial

#4. 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

#5. Dally was so real he scared me.

S.E. Hinton

#6. I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

Deborah Norville

#7. I knew I had a choice. Either let you die and have the world blanketed with evil, or save you and make one dark moment for my best friend while the world continues to grow with light.

K. Weikel

#8. Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.

Delbert L. Stapley

#9. I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Jessamyn West

#10. Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

Alan Moore

#11. Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

Rick Astley

#12. It was ending too soon, the way everything did, everything except Ebola viruses and really bad people like psychopaths. Those things never ended.

Lev Grossman

#13. Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

Mary Heilmann

#14. I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

Damien Hirst

#15. An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi