I remember a quote from one of his documentaries - “How can you cut the flesh open and join with the other person? It’s an impossibility. You may love somebody very much but how near can you get to them? You’re always, unfortunately, sort of strangers.” It’s profound and captures the essence of his view of the world. It was so deeply animalistic and visceral. Bacon is one of my favorite artists - from motif, substance, contrast, beauty, gore, etc to the realization into thick impasto style, composition, giant canvas, color harmony and his technique of “painting by chance” as he describes it - exceptional and extraordinary on many levels.