Quotes About Francis Bacon Artist

#1. All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

Francis Bacon

#2. I said that we use digital "passbacks" to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you. Of

Sherry Turkle

#3. I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, stray lower where the pleasant fountains lie

C.D. Reiss

#5. You 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 Bacon

#6. It was me, Austin. It was me all along, Austin!

Vince McMahon

#7. Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

Francis Bacon

#8. Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.

Owen Wilson

#9. Experience trumps Assumption!

Pippa Sloane

#10. Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.

Barry Crocker

#11. You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Dr. Seuss

#12. Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar ... you never know.

Francis Bacon

#13. Don't be afraid of what you're creating.

Christy Hall

#14. Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.

Russell M. Nelson

#15. He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

Mencius

#16. I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

Francis Bacon

#17. The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

Carl Jung

#18. No 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 Bacon

#19. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Francis Bacon

#20. When you can't handle the heady concoction of wine and women, it's time to pack up your bags and quit.

Anurag Shourie

#21. I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

Joe Dante

#22. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

Barack Obama

#23. I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do.

Tom Scharpling

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

Francis Bacon