Francis Bacon Paint Quotations

We only have our nervous system to paint.

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.