Francis Bacon Quotes

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

I never thought about doing anything other than making art.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

My art completes my life.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

I just want to produce and create projects that I'm passionate about and I love.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Art is the proper task of life.

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artist in regards to drawing and painting, anything I can do that expresses my feelings is something I'm really drawn to.