Extended Reading
  • 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...

  • Ebba 2022-05-11 18:41:01

    love is the devil

    This is a truly modern film. The name of this film is "love is the devil", and I hate its Chinese translation "Love and Paint", it always conveys an ambiguous and unspeakable erotic atmosphere in the film, although to some extent This is actually the case, but it is too eye-catching and misleading,...

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

  • 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?

  • Francis Bacon: In all the motor accidents I've seen, people strewn across the road, the first thing you think of is the strange beauty, the vision of it, before you think of trying to do anything. It's to do with the unusualness of it. I once saw a bad car accident on the large road, and the bodies were strewn about with broken glass from the car and the blood and the various possessions, and it was, in fact, very beautiful. I think the beauty in it is terribly elusive, but it just happened to be the disposition of the bodies, the way they lay in the blood.