"To paint is certainly a pathway towards death, a descent towards the abyss, towards darkness.

But it is also with each paintbrush stroke, a step towards resurrection, a fight for light, a scream for truth.

To paint is to kill the idea, to shake up the rational, to trample the word, to mock the verb and the moment.

When on the canvass the color and shape emerge, the man dies and gives way to the painter.

The painter is not a man, he is simply a painter."

UPDOWN