Monday, June 16, 2008

This week's bon mot

"The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility."


Francis Bacon

(Anyone know if this is the 20th Century Irish painter or the 16th Century English essayist? I'm inclining toward the former. Crappy bloody Internet quotation collections!)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have no idea but it sounds most like the former to me too. I'd bet on it.

(What a rubbish quote website)