Francis Bacon Quotes

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

I really prize and love great painting.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.