Ninety-five percent of people are absolute fools, and they're bigger fools about painting than anything else... Hardly anyone really feels about painting: they read things into it - even the most intelligent people - they think they understand it, but very, very few people are aesthetically touched by painting.
-Francis Bacon
"Looking Back at Francis Bacon" by David Sylvester
Thames and Hudson, 2000.
For a BBC interview with Bacon, you can press HERE
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Self portrait, by Francis Bacon.
Picture by John Minihan.
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