Artist Thoughts

Study for ‘Portrait of Van Gogh IV’ 1957
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© Estate of Francis Bacon
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

The Passing Winter 2005
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© YAYOI KUSAMA
I think that personal feelings, sentimentality and those sorts of emotions, are not art but that universal emotions like happiness are art