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Instinct and Feelings

Men, since their beginnings, have organized themselves or have been organized, framed, either in tribes or pictorial movements. I think that we carry inside the smell of the pack. There has always been little space in the different societies for individualists. I consider that instinct is stronger than a person’s wisdom. Learning and framing is more comfortable; developing instinct, the purest. I only intend one thing in my painting: painting and not blurring colours.

I think that painting is not to be understood but it must only produce a feeling, though it may be rejection. Any adjective that we may want to attribute to it will be trying to explain the unexplainable, because feelings cannot be transmitted, they can only be only felt.
Human beings, in their effort to frame everything, they have named everything that has been painted and is being painted in time. I think we cannot fall in the temptation of finding happiness by belonging to one of those groups or making what the current moment demands, based on the fear of your work being rejected.

I consider that if a paintbrush is held with servitude, the resulting work will never come from instinct but from the expertise of the master, maybe masterly and beautifully but possibly with half a soul. Let the others catalogue us and let us be the ones that paint, let us just do that: paint.

We must fight against all that false paradise that they offer in exchange of us doing what “they want”, those “they” who have the intention of dominating even what they neither admire nor love and that, sometimes, even disregard.

Let us not discredit ourselves before a society in which the power of money rules over almost everything. Let us be a little bit of that “almost” and let us create our work with full freedom, having no one guiding our brushes; let that task be done only by the masters, and above all, our instinct.


Jorge Rando, Malaga, January de 2009