Walter Swennen

“Truth lies in the words. It has once been said: "as stupid as a painter". Stupidity is the name of the real with which the thinking is in dispute. Painting has to do with the real. So I keep myself busy with stupidities.Some like to think of decline or of ever increasing inner void. But there doesn’t exist an inner world. (Having a headache doesn't necessarily mean one has been thinking - and maybe this also applies to painting: one's eyes simply hurt). It is simple, hopeless, comic.” Walter Swennen