The painter is a poet of expression. The painter must not limit himself to observe nature and everything shaping it and then paint it, but he must express from his inside the feelings produced by letting his instinct fully free, so that he can express the feelings he receives and that wants to transmit at the same time. That is why I believe that a poet is the one that can better make a critic about a work of art; painting is poetry taken to the canvas. Painting is a feeling and thus must we see it and analyze it.

The worst thing that can happen to art in general is to fall in the hands of… “Some critics” and “gallery owners”, because it will be them the ones that will dictate the norms the artist must follow but also the norms governing art admirers or viewers. Letting some people with the most varied interests, even sometimes with interests alien to art, speak or write ex cathedra about art and artists is the worst thing that can happen. Let them talk…, yes; let them give their opinion…, also true, but here ends their mission. Do not let them appropriate even the thought of the artist and to affirm that they know what the creator of the work wanted to express and why he did what he did, and give his explanations, putting in the artist’s mouth or mind what this one never even thought about or even considered.

What the artist conceived and sometimes reflected with “divine simplicity”, they critics, transform it into something complicated and even sometimes convoluted.

Putting oneself in the hands of experts is sometimes so dangerous!

It is such a shame that some of those experts have made of works of art a currency!

Purchasing art as an investment is terrible!

Desire (yearn) and reality merge both in the poet and in the painter, and with such a force they do become one. This is how the work is born as a unique and distinct creation; because the reality of nature has been assimilated, digested and reborn with new shapes.

Jorge Rando, Madrid, September 2001