accidentals and art

“It is my conviction
that we cannot lead our action by intuition alone.
Creativity means shaping, means molding, and it requires all the potential –
 intuitive and rational. 
Especially in times of massive misunderstandings,
of enormous and contradictory information,
 one has to employ all the faculties. 
It is the formulation of a proper question which may lead to an answer;
and aesthetics lie somewhere between the formulation and the answer.
I believe that one has to engage in a constant search;
for only this search will give one a chance to find quality –
which is synonymous with fullness and beauty.
 Paintings, sculpture, graphics are all accidentals –
good painting, good sculpture, and good graphic is art.”


-  Bronislaw M. Bak   (+1981)
       ~designer and creator of st john's abbey church window