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'The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment'
Francis Bacon,
Francis Bacon, Three studies of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1966
'I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself'
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti, Diego, 1959
'Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity'
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning, Siderium Exaltatum (Starry Venusweed)
© The Destina Foundation
'In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it'
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait, IV (After the Life Mask of William Blake), 1956
'There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it'
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe, Black Places II, 1944
'Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible.
Humans hide their secrets too well'
René Magritte
Landscape by René Magritte, 1926
'What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince'
Lucian Freud
Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait)
'My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?
My art gives meaning to my life'
Edvard Munch
'Das Weib # 2'