Rose Bowett

“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

“How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

“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

“And we live quietly so as not to hurt one another.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood