Francis Bacon Painter Quotes & Sayings

To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key. — Kelly Jones

I started playing the piano, pretty much on my own, when I was 5, and I started writing music when I was 7. In fact, I won a composition award. It was a crummy little piece, but I won with it. — Maury Yeston

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. — Joseph Joubert

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance. — Francis Bacon

Everyone's childhood is strange. It prepares you for the strangeness of adulthood." Riley — Janet Evanovich

male/female, male/male,
female/female. Love. — Ellen Hopkins

I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation. — Francis Bacon

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

There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults. — Chester Himes

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

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition. — Thomas E. Donilon

Some 70% to 80% of all who join the military will return to the civilian workforce. They'll return to communities, and one of the things I've worried about is the increasing disconnect between the American people and our men and women in uniform. We come from fewer and fewer places. We're less than 1% of the population. — Michael Mullen

So many systems, so many pieces ... more complicated than the most complicated of clocks. I wonder, sometimes: are we truly one thing, one being, or many, many different things, simply dreaming they are one? — Robert Jackson Bennett

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick. — Shia Labeouf

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort. — Christy Turlington

We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress. — Joseph Brant

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist. — Murray N. Rothbard

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. — Thomas Carlyle

You're a special kind of stupid — Victoria Aveyard

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