“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
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Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
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Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
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