Dr. Hugo Heyrman / remarks on art /
*	Every painting has a subject but it's the biology of the medium that is the true subject.
*	Art is a passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom.
*	The act of painting leads me to other dimensions within the image, it opens up new imaginative meanings.
*	Art creates another world.
*	Art has to be reinvented.
*	I paint missing links, reflections of neurological processes.
*	Tactility is the biology of painting.
*	What fascinates me are the nuances, intonations and modulations between the unique (subjective) and general (objective), the tension between the inner and outer world. I paint the interaction between things.
*	Reality XL: every picture is part of a larger whole.
*	Most of my work has to do with contemporary fragility.
*	To paint is to give something back to life, in return for being alive.
*	Art is a revolt against the terror of time.
*	Art connects past and future, the known and the unknown.
*	Art makes us more aware of the synesthetic aspects of experience.
*	A painting works as a mental screen.
*	Paintings are 'ways of seeing', 'forms of visual thinking', they make the virtual and mental space of an image real.
*	I consider my paintings as pictures about pictures (metapictures). They are reflections about the influence of images. I create the physical reality (the skin) of a painting, by giving 'paint' an independent dimension. I feel as much image-maker as painter.
*	Art is a continuous first time experience.
*	Art is a mental solvent, it dissolves one sense into another.
*	Art helps the re-experiencing of forgotten things.
*	Art is a virus, it affects the mind and the senses.
*	Painting is the structuring of intense seeing.
*	A painting can make silence visible.
*	The paradox of the act of painting is to express and to discover something at the same time.
*	In a painting I can bring the visual and the conceptual synesthetically closer together.
*	In a painting I can present matter in its 'forms of life', colour as the aroma of existence, metamorphosis more mobile than movement. All that we see could also be otherwise, in the universe of imagination. I give 'reality' a new image, but no name.
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