When I talk about painting, I mean any process of creation, be it the creation of tableaux and paintings, of music or be it the process of writing. Whenever I create something, I do paint. As soon as I think, I realize that I don't have the faintest idea of anything. When I paint, though, I know it all! Everything! This is the way I approach to the inaccessible. It is the approach to something that is hidden somewhere there. When I paint, I neither think about nor contemplate it. In other words: I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance while thinking. That's why I paint. Peter Piek, 19 February 2006 |