Francis Bacon's 'Self-Portrait', 1969
"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing absurdity."
— Václav Havel
"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."
— Václav Havel
Francis Bacon's 'Self-Portrait', 1971