“El que verdaderamente es maestro en un arte conoce bien sus limitaciones y, como sus aspiraciones están más allá de sus conquistas, nunca se atreverá a jactarse de sí mismo.” Kenko Yoshida - Ocurrencias de un ocioso.

"I'm a bit ashamed that I still want to do something well".
Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769)

"In this immense ocean of confusing and exciting secret lives, it is not enough to see and to be moved, it is necessary to penetrate, it is necessary to love". Henri Focillon, 1918.

Pine Trees screen (detail) • Hasegawa Tōhaku • ca. 1595

… where boundaries blur

Cy Twombly • Tree-peony • 1980

Paul Klee: “The artist of today is more than an improved camera; he is more complex, richer, and wider. He’s a creature on earth and a creature within the whole, that is to say, a creature on a star among the stars”.

Ancient Harmony • 1925

Zhuang Zi:
"Language is not merely the sound of blowing wind.
Words carry meaning,
even if that meaning is not fixed.
Is something truly being said? Or has nothing been said at all?

It’s believed to be different from the chirping of birds,
but is there really a difference, or not?"

“Une ligne rencontre une ligne. Une ligne évite une ligne. Aventures de lignes.
Une ligne pour le plaisir d'être ligne, d'aller, ligne.
Points. Poudre de points.
Une ligne rêve.
On n'avait jusque-là jamais laissé rêver une ligne. Une ligne attend.
Une ligne espère.”

Henri Michaux

Mark Tobey: “A painting should be a textile, a texture. Perhaps I was influenced by my mother. She used to sew and sew. Maybe that’s what I’d rather do than anything with the brush-like stitching over and over, laying it in, going over, bringing it up. Bringing it up. That’s what it’s difficult.”

“No tengo ideas, tengo intuiciones.
Escribo por el camino de las entrevisiones, y no por el camino de las ideas.”
Julio Cortázar

“Music, poems, landscapes and dogs make me want to paint. And painting is what allows me to survive”
Joan Mitchell