"I paint because I have to. It's the only way I have of expressing my very active inner life. My
emotions, unconscious mind and my intuitions are all called upon to comment on a particular
idea. It's an integral part of my life. It allows me to challenge, dissect, and make decisions on
elements that are intellectual and intangible in the physical aspect of living. But it also colors the
physical and intrudes in everything I do. I've been working in art and painting my entire life.
Styles evolve slowly from one to another in a natural rhythm, paralleling my life; life becomes
reflected in the work.
It's great too, because I have a time and space to explore and drift…. My time, my space. Art is
the only place where you can do pretty much what you want to do…..no rules….just your rules.
You can never die…..there's always more to learn, more to do, more to grow. And you can
escape…..escape from all the daily things that are not really important……You can sometimes
touch the other dimension, the spiritual realm. It's all very exciting. And it's often very hard.
Painting is not easy if you are true to yourself because you always have to deliver the right
combination of things to the work, to yourself…. and you are constantly judging and criticizing the
result. You have to learn how to balance and harmonize in every aspect of it….just like real life.
It is real life..to me."
emotions, unconscious mind and my intuitions are all called upon to comment on a particular
idea. It's an integral part of my life. It allows me to challenge, dissect, and make decisions on
elements that are intellectual and intangible in the physical aspect of living. But it also colors the
physical and intrudes in everything I do. I've been working in art and painting my entire life.
Styles evolve slowly from one to another in a natural rhythm, paralleling my life; life becomes
reflected in the work.
It's great too, because I have a time and space to explore and drift…. My time, my space. Art is
the only place where you can do pretty much what you want to do…..no rules….just your rules.
You can never die…..there's always more to learn, more to do, more to grow. And you can
escape…..escape from all the daily things that are not really important……You can sometimes
touch the other dimension, the spiritual realm. It's all very exciting. And it's often very hard.
Painting is not easy if you are true to yourself because you always have to deliver the right
combination of things to the work, to yourself…. and you are constantly judging and criticizing the
result. You have to learn how to balance and harmonize in every aspect of it….just like real life.
It is real life..to me."
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