Zdzisław Beksiński

INTJ

QUOTES

 * "I paint for myself. Contact with the audience is really unnecessary."
 * "I am incapable of working in a team."
 * “I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”
 * "We sit in a false reality."
 * "I am emotionally cold."
 * "Weed-like idiocy will always be accepted on any soil."
 * "What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name."
 * “I refuse to travel, which (Bogucki) does not understand, because like every Pole, he wants to travel and to have a car and thinks that everyone must have the same. (…) And I just want to tinker, and I have a eudaimonistic point of view and I used to do what I like and not what I need.”
 * "I always try to avoid spontaneity. I don't know why, as I cannot explain certain things. I always approach it with craftmanship, as good as I can. At the same time I want to maintain expression and emotion. That is my problem. If you want to be expressive, your brush strokes must be more vigorous...the longer time I finish a painting, the more expression evaporates. But I can't. It would be dishonest to leave it unfinished."
 * Jerzy Potocki: "He always had a tendency to demonize the world."
 * Tadeuz Nyczek: "I have never met anyone so constructed."
 * Kalyn Corrigan : "A man who often admitted to journalists that he was in love with himself, when it came time to explain the meaning behind his doomsday surrealist-style paintings, the esteemed artist would suddenly grow shy and put up a defensive wall, then sternly suggest that his viewers simply appreciate the aesthetics of what he had given them, rather than try to interpret its emotional significance."