My grandfather insisted that beauty wasn't a luxury, art is beautiful but requires considerable effort.

mythopoetic sgraffito is indigo

Sensation is touch or sight, hearing and smelling; perception is knowing that and what we see. Appropriately enough, since this is a paper on chirality, it really depends on your point of view.

Old verities are being challenged

Mythopoetic art saves lives. Mondrian preferred the rubric Neo-Plasticism, to identify painting with the flexible manipulation of its naked means and ends.

Borderline personalities are not necessarily a bad thing for being an artist. High borderline score is a talent, not a sickness.

tapir day

Why should tapirs beauty be suspect?

Life can be very cruel. You can’t really win. All you can do is decide if you want to play the game.

Old theories are being challenged and replaced (easy come, easy go). You just have to keep fighting. Probabilities are shades of grey in an oversimplified black and white world.

By confronting visitors with the shortcomings of idealism and the human condition, it is this underlying underdog darkness that gives inky works their poignancy and power.

genomes rule aesthetics

The internet's tradition of funny pictures may be bear an end. The meaning of nonsensical art rely in its absurdity. Texture, colour and structure are here deployed with spectacular force, with the gliding scrape of the squeegee revealing the kaleidoscopic architectural structure of the artist’s underpainting.

That only through our most ardent patience and perseverance will we conquer a splendid happiness. So I bide my time, but if the years are kind and life allows, I want to be a fundamental equation that explained how the world worked.

Love your audience, and it will love you back

Old theories are being replaced. Old verities are being challenged. You just have to keep fighting.

Old verities are being challenged

"I saw someone who was hungry, who had a determination, who felt unique at the time and had something to say."

Looking for vital and important work that forever make your place in the big game of art history? Find some loopholes: Just consider drawing giraffes, it's seriously high art.

Expect nothing and say yes to everything

Expect nothing and say yes to everything, kitsch has a subversive potential. We’ll make do with whatever pictures we have.

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