“The job of the artist is always. todeepen the mystery.”
-Francis Bacon
"Mystery in art is essential and should exist naturally. Balance, as a whole, should also exist. If the job of the artist is to "always" deepen the mystery, every artist, in turn, would eventually have to produce overly mysterious, useless slag. Forcing artwork to be deeply mysterious is pretentious, and is a disservice to everyone. Truth, in art, will always involve mystery."
-Joel Hobbie
"Francis Bacon was hmself an iconic mystery. Artists do not isolate themselves from the mundane. Instead, they take it to greater heights, and somehow they mysteriously manifest beauty into music, sculpture, painting, and architecture."