I think we live our lives seeking the shortest route, the closest parking space - everything quick, cheap, fast. And it's not better. Two-thirds of the satisfaction of getting something is the process of getting it.
Guillermo del ToroIn the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the fleshโ whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perishโ thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust.
Guillermo del Toro