Francis Bacon in Your Blood Quotes

“Because abstraction can never convey fact in a precise way. It can't be made to convey anything precisely.”
― Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon in Your Blood

“What one longs to do above all, I think, is to reinvent appearances, make it stranger, and more exciting. That's what's so extraordinary about Velazquez: he reinvented the very outline of appearance. You only have to look at the way things are in his paintings. He managed to come back to appearance by way of something that lay quite outside the kind of illustration that was expected of him at the time.”
― Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon in Your Blood

“That's what I feel so often in painting. I mean I know exactly what I want to do, but I can't find the way in which this thing can be made. I want a deeply ordered image, you see, but I want it to come about by chance. You can always hope that the paint will do more for you, but mostly it's like painting a wall when the very first brushstroke you do gives a sudden shock of reality that is cancelled out as you paint the whole surface.”
― Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon in Your Blood