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“She had such a need for the world to be different… For Varo, who envisioned the future with hope, such transcendence would rely on a combination of alchemy, ecology, mysticism, and science. In her painting she imagined a harmony between genders and a rediscovery of a female-centered spirituality that would lead to a higher consciousness, one that all could access.”

“The artist must be clairvoyant: he must see that which others do not see; he must be a magician: must possess the power to make others see that which they do not themselves see.”

“If a wheel turns with sufficient velocity its spokes cannot be seen. Thus, the invisible beings that surround us could be seen by looking through a machine that slows down motion. They’re invisible because the substance they’re made of moves faster than our capacity to see.”

“artists felt once again the ancient nostalgia of magical powers.”

“I deliberately set out to make a mystical work, in the sense of revealing a mystery, or better, of expressing it through ways that do not always correspond to logical order, but to an intuitive, divinatory and irrational order.”