mis propósitos
Mis propósitosTodos los seres tenemos una misión que cumplir. No es el "acaso", ni una circunstancia fortuita quien nos adueña de nuestro patrimonio. Todo éxito es una perseverancia.Tal es el afán y la lucha del hombre, desde su génesis hasta el presente. Transformarse. Crearse, no a la "imagen de Dios", sino a su propio "querer". Y así habremos evolucionado de la forma mítica, a la hondamente humana. ¿Qué mejor, qué peor? Allá los críticos, leales o ileales....Volviendo a mis "propósitos" que después de mi jubilación reciente, son bien diferentes, en cuanto a "libertad" y "tiempo", diré que procuraré ensanchar aún más el remanso de mi soledad, que es y ha sido siempre el sublime diapasón de mi existencia...¿Y lo demás? Una pequeña "biografía" con los ensayos y las gráficas de la historia, o trayectoria, de cuanto he podido lograr "escasamente". Pues, sírvame de norma la sublime lección del maestro Corot, que muy poco antes de morir, casi preágonico, exclama que veía nuevos cielos, y una luz muy diferente a la que lo acompañó todo el período de su vida...Columna "Notas de mi cartera", Ultimas Noticias, 29 de Marzo, 1957Cuaderno de Pintura, Manuel Quintana CastilloMonte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana, Caracas (2010)
My purpose
All beings have a mission to fulfill. It is not "just in case", or a free happenstance which makes us own our assets. All success is perseverance.
Such is the desire and the struggle of man, from his genesis to his present situation. To transform himself. To create himself, not in the "image of God," but of his own "desire." And so we will have evolved from the mythical form to that which is profoundly human. Which is better, which is worse? So much for the critics, loyal or not loyal ....
Returning to my "purpose" which after my recent retirement, is very different in terms of "freedom" and "time", I must say that I will try to expand the haven of my loneliness, which is and has always been the sublime tuning fork of my life ...
¿And the rest? A small "biography" with essays and graphic history, or time line, of what I have "hardly" achieved. Well, let Corot's sublime lesson be my norm, he who very shortly before his death, almost preagonizing, exclaimed that he was seeing new skies, and a very different light than the one which accompanied his entire life ...
Marcos Castillo
Column "Notes of my portfolio," Ultimas Noticias, March 29, 1957
Painting Notebook, Manuel Quintana Castillo
Monte Avila Editores Latinoamericana, Caracas (2010)


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