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“We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tells us how we matter. Don't we love a cashed check, a passport, the touch of a president's hand, though each pleasure rests on a cruelty just beyond our sight? The finger points, without equivocating, at us, and we wonder at being chosen.”
― Acts of Service
― Acts of Service
“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.”
― Francis Bacon in Your Blood
― Francis Bacon in Your Blood
“Because abstraction can never convey fact in a precise way. It can't be made to convey anything precisely.”
― Francis Bacon in Your Blood
― Francis Bacon in Your Blood
“Openness and sincerity were prized above all else under a governing practice of radical tolerance, in which speaking about anything at all could yield only benefit and in which secrets could develop only into shameful wounds.”
― Acts of Service
― Acts of Service
“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.”
― Francis Bacon in Your Blood
― Francis Bacon in Your Blood
Rose’s 2025 Year in Books
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150 books
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145 books
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