Francis Bacon (artist) Quote

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.


Francis Bacon (ed. Pantheon, 1975)


An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon...

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon...

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon...

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon...