sexta-feira, 2 de março de 2007

Quoting Francis Bacon


"The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure; it’s a little like making love, the physical act of love."

"Picasso was the first person to produce figurative paintings which overturned the rules of appearance; he suggested appearance without using the usual codes, without respecting the representational truth of form, but using a breath of irrationality instead, to make representation stronger and more direct; so that form could pass directly from the eye to the stomach without going through the brain."

"I need the city; I need to know there are people around me strolling, arguing, fucking—living, and yet I go out very rarely; I stay here in my cage."


Source: http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon_quotes.htm
Source of image (Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X -1953
by Francis Bacon): http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/paint_study.htm

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