Artist Thoughts

Francis Bacon
Study for ‘Portrait of Van Gogh IV’ (1957)
Tate
Art is to console those who are broken by life
I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live

Yayoi Kusama
The Passing Winter (2005)
Tate

Agnes Martin
Faraway Love (1999)
ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland
I think that personal feelings, sentimentality and those sorts of emotions, are not art but that universal emotions like happiness are art