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“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure; it’s a little like making love, the physical act of love.”
Francis Bacon
Study After Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X
1953
Oil on canvas
60 × 46 in
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“In my case all painting… is an accident. I foresee it and yet I hardly
ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual
paint. I don’t in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it
does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.”
Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953, by Francis Bacon
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Pope Struck by Maurizio Cattelan