Tramonto sul Canale Grande Artwork

Born in Granada, raised and resident in Madrid, Spain. ... but immediately I noticed that while painting, it was necessary that I, who painted it, was something. And noting that this truth: I paint therefore I am, was so firm and true, that they could not break it or the most extravagant assumptions of the skeptics, I judged that I could admit it, unscrupulously as the principle of life I was looking for ... The principle of life, of a life in which every quick or endless brushstroke brings a breath of clean and new peace as if it were always the first time and everything is flooded with freedom and fulfillment when after the effort and patience the climax of the birth of a painting.