Francis Bacon (artist) Quote

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.


Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974 (ed. Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 1975)


Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a...

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a...

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a...

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a...