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There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
It is mysterious how insight and energy seem to come and go from our studios as they please.
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
My pictures had (and have) secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I’m saying now… I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I’m working on right now because it excites me to do that…
Each color lives by its mysterious life.
Each color lives by its mysterious life. Read More »
The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of ‘participation mystique’ – to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual…
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Read More »
The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labour satisfies.
All my thinking about art is haunted by a mystical belief that in its practice one is tapping sources of truth.
For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it.
