Quotes

There is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of ‘life.’

There comes a point when the paint doesn’t feel like paint. I don’t know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it… What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it’s craft.

Exaggerate the essential; leave the obvious vague.

I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

Art is a mystery and it is the artist’s vocation to journey through that mystery, dwell in it, experience it, and express it.

People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.

Oh mysterious world… I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul – a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.