If Art Is Not A Medicine For

The Mole Is An Animal That Digs Passages Searching For The Sun. Sometimes He Reaches The Surface. When He Looks At The Sun He Goes Blind.

What I Am Trying To Do When I Use Symbols Is To Awaken In Your Unconscious Some Reaction. I Am Very Conscious Of What I Am Using Because Symbols Can Be Very Dangerous. When We Use Normal Language We Can Defend Ourselves Because Our Society Is A Linguistic Society, A Semantic Society. But When You Start To Speak, Not With Words, But Only With Images, The People Cannot Defend Themselves.

One Day, Someone Showed Me A Glass Of Water That Was Half Full. And He Said, "is It Half Full Or Half Empty?" So I Drank The Water. No More Problem.

I Am An Artist. For Me, A Picture Is Like Poetry. When You Make Art, This Is Not Coming From An Intellectual Place. It's Coming From The Deep Side Of Your Unconscious, Your Soul. And You Are Like In Some Kind Of Possession, Where You Are Doing Anything To Get The Visual. You Become Another Person. You're Becoming An Artist In Action. And Then A Lot Of Miracles Come. A Lot Of Discovering. It's A Very Complicated Thing.

Have A Dream. Fight To Do A Dream. Don't Ask If It Is Possible To Do Something Or If Not Possible. Try To Do It!