兒子前幾天從慕尼黑發給我的培根，非常令人震撼和不安的一件偉大作品。對死亡、受虐、施虐及文明、人性畸變的既極端天才和藝術又非常粗暴和歇斯底里的表達。想起羅伯特·休斯對他的一段經典評論：「This painter of buggery, sadism, dread and death-vomit has emerged as the toughest, the most implacable, lyric artist in late twentieth-century England, perhaps in all the world. ..Bacon is Ruskin's antitype: in his ferocious sexual frankness, of course, but most of all in his denial that human life has any 'higher purpose', or that art and nature connect us in some way to God·」