Pensamiento

The only thing that can depress a painter is losing a round in the fight for creation.

If he loses the fight, he will be no painter.

The painter must not go “against nature”; just as mothers want to show the baby they have fathered and present it with the best clothes.

Mothers only keep what can hurt the sensitivity of the created subconscious away from the sight, but they are never ashamed of what they have produced, though it may be hideous.

Above all, the painter is a human being; and human beings always have priorities, moreover, if they do not have them, they must have them; and if the painter loses all the rounds of creation, he must concentrate his energies in another endeavour in life and help make this great machine of the Great Creator work. And in his pauses, if he wants to paint, let him paint.

The work of a painter will never be mature; improvisation does not exist.

Creation is infinite, so if we consider maturity as the moment when fruit is ripe and it can be eaten… when the work is finished and in a certain way achieved and it can be shown, then we can say that the work is mature. But, if on the contrary, maturity is understood as the culmination of the work, then, I think we are wrong, as the culmination of the work of a painter lies precisely there, in the constant search of the Great Work, and it is in that path were the painter can fulfil himself and leave that trail full of works of art that are as landmarks marking the way to the Truth of Art.

You must not search in art, only look around and make everything your own and interpret it in the canvas, by simply painting it in any manner you may know; because the greatness of painting lies there, in the act of painting, and only that must make the painter grow and be satisfied.

Jorge Rando, Malaga, September, 2000