Extended Reading
  • Alec 2022-05-11 23:15:07

    Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

    Good love, I am still excited for George's softly whispered sorry before the start of SM, but then it was hooked by the distorted yellow-green main color picture. The film revealed a hidden sense of violence, and gradually Twisted, disintegrated, destroyed, and plummeted. The delusions behind...

  • Roderick 2022-05-11 19:42:45

    Their love goes both ways

    I know people tend to blame Francis for George's tragic ending, but their love goes both ways - the physical infidelity can be seen in both of them, it doesn't matter; The essential difference cannot be approached and hurt each other. My understanding is that their relationship that started with...

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon quotes

  • Francis Bacon: What mad misfortunes make his eyes blaze with despair? I dream of some tough lover. Big as the Universe, his body blemished by shadows. He'll crush me, naked, in gloomy bars between his golden thighs. A mundane yob transformed into an archangel. Is my lover to be my assassin? Or I his? Loneliness - my only true companion - will always rival any lover. Its greedy desire... always drive a wedge between me and any contender for my company. And I question myself; do I possess some inner destructive demon?

  • Bell-Hop: I'm sorry to trouble you, Mr. Bacon, but it's your friend Mr. Dyer.

    Francis Bacon: Oh. What is it now?

    Bell-Hop: Well, I'm afraid he's on the roof of the building.

    Francis Bacon: Oh...

    Bell-Hop: And he says he's gonna jump.

    Francis Bacon: Ohh!

    Bell-Hop: So we were wondering if you might...

    Francis Bacon: [Disinterested and annoyed] ... Come up and give him a push?