"A
good drawing does not in any way compare unfavourably with a good painting. It
is more the case that beneath every picture is an essential underlying drawing
that sustains it, a skeleton that mobilises it and gives it form. Any painting
lacking this base crumbles and appears flimsy.”
"Everybody asks themselves what
art is. I think that art is any human creation that is able to lift the
spirit to a higher plain of emotion and wonderment."
“…being a painter, a writer, a
sculptor or a musician does not put one at a higher rank than any other
profession. There are a lot of professions that, when carried out to the
extreme, without a doubt achieve a higher level than that of the majority of
artists. For instance, a wonderful craftsman, a maker of Manila shawls, can
go further than a mediocre sculptor; the work can be superior. Or a great
soccer player can raise greater passion than most of us, painters. To be an
“artist” does not guarantee anything. However, sometimes a genius is born in
a way that distinguishes the great arts, along with science, philosophy or
politics, from any other endeavor. We cannot compare Michael Angelo’s
Sixteen Chapel or Newton’s Law of Gravitation with the most amazing soccer
goal. Art with capital letters is easy to detect; its light continues to
shine through time.”
“Abstract
Painting and Surrealist Painting, apart from being essential and marvelous
in themselves, also fulfil an invaluable pedagogical function these days for
any artist. They have now become part of Classical Art and are the Artistic
Heritage for Spiritual Learning and Artistic technique. They are like
gymnastics for the unaware and for the eye, providing places where almost
all feelings and spiritual emotions can be hatched to finally lead to
building this immeasurable and grandiose thing we call THE ART of PAINTING."
