For real, lol. I found this both inspiring and comforting. I always feel like I was waiting for this great burst of creativity or inspiration, or that my drawings needed to be deeply symbolic or meaningful, but it just never came. So I felt I wasn't an artist. But this man flipped it on its head and says, "No, I just paint." Sort of freeing for me to just continue putting pen to paper and let fly.
not really. obviously many artists refuse to go in-depth, maybe they think it's pretentious or not worth to share or analyze. it doesn't just happen. there is reason, there is inspiration. it's either subconscious or not worth sharing in the artist's view.
@@dontworryaboutit273 I don't think it was conscious for him, and it doesn't have to be for anyone. You can just make something that you feel you can relate to, or something you want to look at, and it's a creative expression of subconscious emotions.
@@dontworryaboutit273 Always avoid the willed symbolism. Always avoid the conscious allegory. Always avoid the constructive contrivance. For sure avoid the representation. Just present. Burrow through the ready cliches and schemas. Let them pass through you. What is underneath is not what you know. It is what you don't know. It's what you are exploring. If that journey is interesting and meaningful, ecstatic and scary to you - possibly it will be for others. Do not endeavour to deliberately express yourself. Burrowing towards the core truth will automatically display what you are, as a by-product the struggle. Self-expression is a byproduct of directed effort, honesty and courage. Style is a byproduct of connecting with a voice of yearning. It is the rythm of it's speech. Flow is your helper, found in the oblivion of ritual repetition. Do not think of emotion. It takes care of itself. It runs away if you look. Emotion is inside the sensual. You enter through the sense detail. You focus, you concentrate, you do not get in the way, you move the pencil until it moves you. You allow the work trance, you embrace forgetting what you are, what you know, what you would like to be. You may not feel what you are feeling, you may not know what you know, there may be no time to catch on. Don't swim in it. Be it. Dissolve your self and let the new self assemble itself from the digested past crashing into the needs of the now and the intuition of what may be about to be. You will feel it's arrival before it arrives. Whatever it is. And when it does. Do not violate it with contrivance. Do not get in the way. Do not look up. Do not think or fight the blinders. Don't plot a course. Listen to what is until the road emerges. If you get stuck - do not pile on ideas. Dive deeper into what is already there. Fixate on the superficial, the placeholders and the misdirections. Look what's under there. Maybe you slipped past too fast because it was too close, too live, too boundless and out of hand, too scary or way too pleasurable. Be ready for the whole to fall away at any point. Be ready to sacrifice it all until the last moment. There will be two epiphanies: The first resonant opening, that sends you off into act two, and the moment when you suddenly see the whole thing in context and you realise the through the specific and individual, you arrived at the global and universal.
@@whynottalklikeapirat I had to take a day to sit and read all of it. I have to say, I feel like my understanding of what you wrote is only superficial, but I can at least appreciate the depth of it and find something encouraging to pursue art..."You move the pencil until it moves you." Thanks, stranger!
I've noticed that many artists that i'm fond of have the same attitude towards the "message" of their art. If i recall correctly, Andrei Tarkovsky has said something similar about his films, he doesn't make films with a set meaning or message but lets the audience just experience his films. I remember watching an interview with Werner Herzog where he says " - And you will find that in great poetry, when you listen or you read a great poem it will occur to you very abruptly that there's a deep enormous truth in this poem. And you feel illuminated by it, and you don't need to analyze, you don't have to read lots of literature about this poem. You just know it instantly." And i think the same applies to most art i tend to enjoy. Maybe because of my habit of overanalyzing most other things in my life. It gives me a moment to breathe and just enjoy something for the sake of enjoying it. If someone asked me to tell them what makes my favorite art pieces great in my opinion, i probably couldn't even answer them. And when you find someone else who shares that feeling an "gets it" that's one of the most satisfying feelings ever, but also trying to explain it to someone who doesn't get it is extremely frustrating, it's like trying to describe a beautiful landscape with only words.
Great to watch interviews of greatest influencer and inspiration for my own art. Awesome to understand him better and get suprised how many views on the world are similar!
Yes, now I see, he is of the most important artists of our time. The best are usually veiled like this, while they should celebrate him like Picasso they do not - and never will. But to them that know art and him, we will continue to light his candle - out of respect.
For people that want to know The story of beksinski and beksinski’s family , watch a Polish movie called „The last family" , one of my all time favorites
Jestem zachwycona Beksińskim. On był tak złożony, tak genialny , świadomy swego geniuszu ale jednocześnie skromny. Był tak piekielnie inteligentny. Przeczytałam i obejrzałam już chyba wszystko na temat Pana Beksińskiego, byłam w muzeum w Sanoku i ciągle mi mało.
If these interviewers didn't have there heads up there asses we could have possibly gained more insight. Still fun watching him talk about his work/process. He's up there with the greats to me.
Beksinski explains art and the artist perfectly - I have been waiting for a colleague with a modern voice who shared my opinions, but unfortunately he was murdered. I never knew about him until now.
Odżegnuje się od jakichkolwiek treści i znaczeń w swoich obrazach tak jak Lynch od treści i znaczeń w swoich filmach. Ale i jeden i drugi ma swoich egzegetów, którzy bezbłędnie interpretują o co chodziło autorowi
Bez wątpliwości jedna z najciekawszych rozmów z Mistrzem… Atmosfera, która się wytworzyła między rozmówcami była wyjątkowa, bo zależało obu stronom na jakości dyskusji i moim zdaniem baaardzo to czuć… Ale dało to super efekt w postaci kilku ważnych zdań dających do myślenia..
Czuję się głęboko zażenowana poziomem pytań skierowanych do Beksińskiego w tym materiale... Podziwiam jego cierpliwość. Nie da się w uniwersalny sposob zinterpretować wiersz, obrazu czy utworu muzycznego! Tak jak (B. to podkreśla) nie da się wytłumaczyć krajobrazu czy zjawiska przyrody.
Andy nie wiem skad Ty sie urwales ale dziekuje za te filmy ... za te filmy ktore sprawiaja ze juz do konca nie glupieje w tym dzisiejszym chorym swiecie ...
Incredible interview. He sees how pointless life can be, but is just trying to make the best of his time while he's around. You can tell he wants to be a star, an entertainer, an admired person like the greats he mentions, but is humble about the way he got there. It was very interesting to hear him say if the world ended and he was the last man around with a paint set, he wouldn't bother painting because nobody would be around to give him recognition or reward. Is he sad on the inside and just driven by money and notoriety? From all the interviews out there he is very complex..calculated, almost like a serial killer.
czyli jednak dotarłeś do tego wywiadu, ciekawym bardzo w jaki sposób... Gratulacje i wielkie dzięki za przypomnienie owej rozmowy. Pozdrawiam serdecznie.
The strained questions were brilliantly managed by the artist. His comments meant a lot to me as an artist. This setting was rather odd. A stairway.....to heaven....to insight.....some unknown metaphor on the part of the interviewers?
Did Beksinski confuse the western concept of nihilistic nothingness with the Buddhist 'no-thingness'? It seems to me like his paintings create the sensation of a kind in between those
She is propably quite friendly and respectful but as I don't speak the langua it seems blaiming and interrogative in some way the way she interviews him :D
mr. Beksinski, you better go truly inside of yourself and find a core of life and true eternity afterwards...or everything you have done here will perish in after-here!
I think that his parents made mistakes in his upbringing. His father wasn't entirely able to live in Normal world. He was little bit odd and introvert. Tomas's was sensitive and educated and he lived in the world of music , films and books . He thought that world should look like world created in his dreams and he couldn't stand that reality looks different. I think that he was also little bit spoiled ;) I don't wanna judge but you know... He looks little bit like spoiled child in those materials . Sorry for Ma English
I think it was partly because of the lack of real romantic relationship. It was also the thought about growing consumptionism which was coming and devouring everything that he loved - his music, his art and the movies. You can hear the echo of this idea in his last radio audition. The new millenium for him was the symbol of the death of his world and after this the only thing he could imagine was pure nihilism so he decided to die, he did not want to experience this kind of reality.
Beksińskiskiego można słuchać pasjami... Ale prowadzący wywiad nieprzygotowani, żenujący ze swoimi pytaniami, jakby nie znali jego postawy, genezy twórczości, jego poglądów, itd. Przecież to nie początkujący Beksiński tylko schyłek jego twórczości. Beksiński wykazał się duuuuzą cierpliwością.
You may seem like an answer but even you don't know the secrets. . . and thus: The Nothingness, the nihilism. We're all just soaking up time, trying to not be bored. Some of us are better at it than others. It's all farts in the wind.
Interviewers: *pretentious questions*
Beksinski: it's just paintings lmao
For real, lol. I found this both inspiring and comforting. I always feel like I was waiting for this great burst of creativity or inspiration, or that my drawings needed to be deeply symbolic or meaningful, but it just never came. So I felt I wasn't an artist. But this man flipped it on its head and says, "No, I just paint." Sort of freeing for me to just continue putting pen to paper and let fly.
not really. obviously many artists refuse to go in-depth, maybe they think it's pretentious or not worth to share or analyze. it doesn't just happen. there is reason, there is inspiration. it's either subconscious or not worth sharing in the artist's view.
@@dontworryaboutit273 I don't think it was conscious for him, and it doesn't have to be for anyone. You can just make something that you feel you can relate to, or something you want to look at, and it's a creative expression of subconscious emotions.
@@dontworryaboutit273 Always avoid the willed symbolism. Always avoid the conscious allegory. Always avoid the constructive contrivance. For sure avoid the representation. Just present. Burrow through the ready cliches and schemas. Let them pass through you. What is underneath is not what you know. It is what you don't know. It's what you are exploring. If that journey is interesting and meaningful, ecstatic and scary to you - possibly it will be for others. Do not endeavour to deliberately express yourself. Burrowing towards the core truth will automatically display what you are, as a by-product the struggle. Self-expression is a byproduct of directed effort, honesty and courage. Style is a byproduct of connecting with a voice of yearning. It is the rythm of it's speech. Flow is your helper, found in the oblivion of ritual repetition. Do not think of emotion. It takes care of itself. It runs away if you look. Emotion is inside the sensual. You enter through the sense detail. You focus, you concentrate, you do not get in the way, you move the pencil until it moves you. You allow the work trance, you embrace forgetting what you are, what you know, what you would like to be. You may not feel what you are feeling, you may not know what you know, there may be no time to catch on. Don't swim in it. Be it. Dissolve your self and let the new self assemble itself from the digested past crashing into the needs of the now and the intuition of what may be about to be. You will feel it's arrival before it arrives. Whatever it is. And when it does. Do not violate it with contrivance. Do not get in the way. Do not look up. Do not think or fight the blinders. Don't plot a course. Listen to what is until the road emerges. If you get stuck - do not pile on ideas. Dive deeper into what is already there. Fixate on the superficial, the placeholders and the misdirections. Look what's under there. Maybe you slipped past too fast because it was too close, too live, too boundless and out of hand, too scary or way too pleasurable. Be ready for the whole to fall away at any point. Be ready to sacrifice it all until the last moment. There will be two epiphanies: The first resonant opening, that sends you off into act two, and the moment when you suddenly see the whole thing in context and you realise the through the specific and individual, you arrived at the global and universal.
@@whynottalklikeapirat I had to take a day to sit and read all of it. I have to say, I feel like my understanding of what you wrote is only superficial, but I can at least appreciate the depth of it and find something encouraging to pursue art..."You move the pencil until it moves you." Thanks, stranger!
This man was a humble genius like none other. Probably the best example of a truly unique mind that is able to stay grounded to reality.
This man is so honest about his work ! Never exaggerated a bit !
I've noticed that many artists that i'm fond of have the same attitude towards the "message" of their art. If i recall correctly, Andrei Tarkovsky has said something similar about his films, he doesn't make films with a set meaning or message but lets the audience just experience his films. I remember watching an interview with Werner Herzog where he says " - And you will find that in great poetry, when you listen or you read a great poem it will occur to you very abruptly that there's a deep enormous truth in this poem. And you feel illuminated by it, and you don't need to analyze, you don't have to read lots of literature about this poem. You just know it instantly."
And i think the same applies to most art i tend to enjoy. Maybe because of my habit of overanalyzing most other things in my life. It gives me a moment to breathe and just enjoy something for the sake of enjoying it. If someone asked me to tell them what makes my favorite art pieces great in my opinion, i probably couldn't even answer them. And when you find someone else who shares that feeling an "gets it" that's one of the most satisfying feelings ever, but also trying to explain it to someone who doesn't get it is extremely frustrating, it's like trying to describe a beautiful landscape with only words.
this was a treasure for me
Great interview. He is definitely one of my favorite painters.
Great to watch interviews of greatest influencer and inspiration for my own art. Awesome to understand him better and get suprised how many views on the world are similar!
So my favorite composer is from Poland and now my favorite painter is too.
Try listen Ewa Demarczyk.
This is gold, thanks for the english translation, I love this artist
thank you so much for posting and translating it
What a man.
Yes, now I see, he is of the most important artists of our time. The best are usually veiled like this, while they should celebrate him like Picasso they do not - and never will. But to them that know art and him, we will continue to light his candle - out of respect.
I am going to continue the line of the greats.
The conversation they have about cash is pretty ominous considering he was stabbed by his neighbor for not lending him a small amount of money.
Geniusz!
Andy, dzięki za wspaniały świąteczny prezent :) Jeden z najciekawszych wywiadów ze Zdzisławem...
For people that want to know The story of beksinski and beksinski’s family , watch a Polish movie called „The last family" , one of my all time favorites
This man was very aware.
Jestem zachwycona Beksińskim. On był tak złożony, tak genialny , świadomy swego geniuszu ale jednocześnie skromny. Był tak piekielnie inteligentny. Przeczytałam i obejrzałam już chyba wszystko na temat Pana Beksińskiego, byłam w muzeum w Sanoku i ciągle mi mało.
Zgadzam się
To prawda. Wspaniały, fascynujący człowiek.
Thank you so much for this! By far, this is the most insightful interview I've witnessed.
Bardzo dobry wywiad!
SOLEMNITY, Yes, exactly !!
Najlepsze obrazy są takie które potrafią ... zaskoczyć
= alchemia wyobraźni
The interviewers make me cringe, they're talking to him like hes some omniscient being from another dimension.
Bryce Thibodeaux Media mostly functions by promoting vulgar empty things.
9: 30 " ten cały świat, który nas otacza, będzie niczym, on jest tylko wyobrażnią"
i love how unattached he is.... thanks for all your vids
If these interviewers didn't have there heads up there asses we could have possibly gained more insight. Still fun watching him talk about his work/process. He's up there with the greats to me.
Beksinski explains art and the artist perfectly - I have been waiting for a colleague with a modern voice who shared my opinions, but unfortunately he was murdered. I never knew about him until now.
Odżegnuje się od jakichkolwiek treści i znaczeń w swoich obrazach tak jak Lynch od treści i znaczeń w swoich filmach. Ale i jeden i drugi ma swoich egzegetów, którzy bezbłędnie interpretują o co chodziło autorowi
Bez wątpliwości jedna z najciekawszych rozmów z Mistrzem… Atmosfera, która się wytworzyła między rozmówcami była wyjątkowa, bo zależało obu stronom na jakości dyskusji i moim zdaniem baaardzo to czuć… Ale dało to super efekt w postaci kilku ważnych zdań dających do myślenia..
Czuję się głęboko zażenowana poziomem pytań skierowanych do Beksińskiego w tym materiale...
Podziwiam jego cierpliwość.
Nie da się w uniwersalny sposob zinterpretować wiersz, obrazu czy utworu muzycznego!
Tak jak (B. to podkreśla) nie da się wytłumaczyć krajobrazu czy zjawiska przyrody.
No dobrze, ale trzeba było to od niego usłyszeć
według mnie były dobre porównując z innymi wywiadami, ale z chęcią posłucham jakie Pani zadała by pytanie na tzw. poziomie
Thank you Andy!!
Cheers from US.
Thanks for the translation.
Andy nie wiem skad Ty sie urwales ale dziekuje za te filmy ... za te filmy ktore sprawiaja ze juz do konca nie glupieje w tym dzisiejszym chorym swiecie ...
Incredible interview. He sees how pointless life can be, but is just trying to make the best of his time while he's around. You can tell he wants to be a star, an entertainer, an admired person like the greats he mentions, but is humble about the way he got there. It was very interesting to hear him say if the world ended and he was the last man around with a paint set, he wouldn't bother painting because nobody would be around to give him recognition or reward. Is he sad on the inside and just driven by money and notoriety? From all the interviews out there he is very complex..calculated, almost like a serial killer.
10:46 Correction to the translation: That is Samsara, not Sankara.
thx
Długo, namiętnie i bezskutecznie szukałam TEJ "Rozmowy na koniec wieku"? DZIĘKI!
Andy, jestes nadzwyczajny!
czyli jednak dotarłeś do tego wywiadu, ciekawym bardzo w jaki sposób... Gratulacje i wielkie dzięki za przypomnienie owej rozmowy. Pozdrawiam serdecznie.
The strained questions were brilliantly managed by the artist. His comments meant a lot to me as an artist. This setting was rather odd. A stairway.....to heaven....to insight.....some unknown metaphor on the part of the interviewers?
Did Beksinski confuse the western concept of nihilistic nothingness with the Buddhist 'no-thingness'? It seems to me like his paintings create the sensation of a kind in between those
What a fascinating individual behind such inventive and incredible paintings. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Andy your awesome !!!
This is an interview!!
She is propably quite friendly and respectful but as I don't speak the langua it seems blaiming and interrogative in some way the way she interviews him :D
Ça c est un homme
bardzo dobry wywiad. ponadczasowy.
Fun fact; Mahler means painter in German.
Fun fact: you spell Maler without 'h' (sorry I'm a grammar nazi)
Tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are not sensitive enough
Picture and History human error
interviewer's body language makes me feel weird
Conflict is the most sensitive
reproductive imposition
JEST SWIETNY FOLE TO MNIEJ MSOCZNE PIEKNIE MOWISZ MASZ DAR I KLASE ARTYSTO I LVBIE WCZESNIEJ SLVZEW NAD DOLNKA TO MOKOTOW I TA TWOJA FOTOGRA KLASA
świetny wywiad
Hi Andy I would like to use your video for my MA course assessment. Can you please let me me know if that is alright with you?
Of course, feel free to use it. I'm wishing you success in studies.
Super late reply. This is 2 people desperately trying to sound intelligent and 1 person who actually is intelligent. Thanks for translation.
He with the god's,
The ancient human nervous system has more opportunities than vertical evolution in the future and present environment
mr. Beksinski, you better go truly inside of yourself and find a core of life and true eternity afterwards...or everything you have done here will perish in after-here!
Icon 🖤
Love him
BASED Beksiński is a Mahler fan
Does anyone know when this interview took place?
in 2002 .
Thank you!
Great article on BMD. Spot on personality of the Master. You're truly a writer Kalyn...
Thank you so much Andy!! That really means a lot. I appreciate it.
"There is no Before or After provided we exclude the concept of time."
"Every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes." xD
Opposing parallel
Aha.... ;)
Andy do you know why Tomasz decided to end his life
I think it's because he couldn't find love.
Are you serious ! That really sucks .... you can tell he's a nice guy .... love is over rated anyways !
I think that his parents made mistakes in his upbringing. His father wasn't entirely able to live in Normal world. He was little bit odd and introvert. Tomas's was sensitive and educated and he lived in the world of music , films and books . He thought that world should look like world created in his dreams and he couldn't stand that reality looks different. I think that he was also little bit spoiled ;) I don't wanna judge but you know... He looks little bit like spoiled child in those materials . Sorry for Ma English
I think it was partly because of the lack of real romantic relationship. It was also the thought about growing consumptionism which was coming and devouring everything that he loved - his music, his art and the movies. You can hear the echo of this idea in his last radio audition. The new millenium for him was the symbol of the death of his world and after this the only thing he could imagine was pure nihilism so he decided to die, he did not want to experience this kind of reality.
Exit from the human race human way
Father of the Savior
Beksińskiskiego można słuchać pasjami... Ale prowadzący wywiad nieprzygotowani, żenujący ze swoimi pytaniami, jakby nie znali jego postawy, genezy twórczości, jego poglądów, itd. Przecież to nie początkujący Beksiński tylko schyłek jego twórczości. Beksiński wykazał się duuuuzą cierpliwością.
Nie było tak źle. Ciekawy wywiad
Beksinski looks annoyed
You may seem like an answer but even you don't know the secrets. . . and thus: The Nothingness, the nihilism.
We're all just soaking up time, trying to not be bored. Some of us are better at it than others.
It's all farts in the wind.