Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Francis Bacon is a good-looking young man. I don't think he has a girlfriend but I don't know. I don't think he… — James Marshall Copy Share Image
Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“If love tasted like pork, and you were allergic to Francis Bacon, could I be your Shakespeare? We could make love on… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether it is an act of faithfulness to her or a betrayal of the dignity she never lost,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“Steve Englehart’s latest idea for Doctor Strange was appropriately zany: Strange and his lover/apprentice Clea would be whisked back in time to… — Sean Howe Copy Share Image
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient… — Multiple Copy Share Image
Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Albert Einstein, and John, Paul,… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
“The suspect nature of these stories can be seen in the anecdote Jefferson told of Hamilton visiting his lodging in 1792 and… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The dilemma is this. In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in almost every field, that… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them,… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
We all lose friends...we lose them in death, to distance and over time. But even though they may be lost, hope is… — SweetangelUnknown Copy Share Image
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
“Sir Francis Bacon wrote, “Reading maketh a full man … writing an exact man.” — Mike Ashcraft Copy Share Image
I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring,… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
“In 1577 there was committed to prison at Oxford a certain Rowland Jencks, a Catholic bookbinder who was accused of speaking evil… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
