Artist Thoughts
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Francis Bacon
Study for ‘Portrait of Van Gogh IV’
(1957)
Tate
Art is to console those who are broken by life
I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live
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Yayoi Kusama
The Passing Winter
(2005)
Tate
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Agnes Martin
Faraway Love
(1999)
ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland
I think that personal feelings, sentimentality and those sorts of emotions, are not art but that universal emotions like happiness are art