"Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits……" — Milan Kundera
"Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?"
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Milan Kundera
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
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