弗朗西斯·培根｜《坐着的女人》1961

“I like things that shock and affect my nervous system. But things are not shocking unless they have been put into a memorable form. Most of what is called art, your eye just flows over. It may be charming or nice, but it doesn’t change you. Something much more horrendous is the last line in Yeat’s ‘The Second Coming’, which is a prophetic poem: ‘And what rough beast, its our come around at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?’ That's stronger and more extraordinary than the horror even of war photos because they are just literal horror, whereas the Yeats is a horror which has a whole vibration in its prophetic quality. One day, in fifty or a hundred years’ time, people will see just how simple my distortions are. And sometimes, when I hear other artists and critics and so on talking, I think I come from an ancient simplicity. Time is the only real critic.” 

“我喜欢震撼和影响我神经系统的东西。但是，除非以令人难忘的形式表现出来，否则就不会令人震惊。大多数被称为艺术的东西，你的眼睛只是流过。它可能很迷人，也可能很美好，但它不会改变你。更可怕的是叶芝《第二次降临》中的最后一句，这是一首预言诗： '是什么粗野的野兽，它终于来了，懒洋洋地走向伯利恒，准备出生？'这比战争照片的恐怖更强烈、更非凡，因为它们只是字面上的恐怖，而叶芝的恐怖则具有预言性的整体震撼力。总有一天，在五十年或一百年后，人们会发现我的扭曲是多么简单。有时，当我听到其他艺术家和评论家等在谈论时，我觉得自己来自古老的朴素。时间是唯一真正的批评家"。

——弗朗西斯·培根

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