Art Quotes by Francis Bacon

Art is man added to Nature.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

— Francis Bacon

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

— Francis Bacon

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

— Francis Bacon

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

— Francis Bacon

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

— Francis Bacon

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice…

— Francis Bacon

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at…

— 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…

— Francis Bacon

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five…

— Francis Bacon

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic…

— Francis Bacon

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out…

— Francis Bacon

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint.…

— Francis Bacon

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of…

— Francis Bacon

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing…

— Francis Bacon

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist…

— Francis Bacon

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is…

— Francis Bacon

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is…

— Francis Bacon

I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got…

— Francis Bacon