Kókay Krisztina (Esztergom, 2005)
GYÖRGY JÁNOSSY Instead of winged words. Instead of winged words, I will speak briefly. Aphoristic, concise thoughts and facts fare much better. The opening of an exhibition is a treat: one gets to look into the world of another mind - the most sensitive part of our bodies. And it has a special importance today, when knowledge shifts more and more from the linear to the visual. We live in a time of a great change, which we couldn't take a grip on yet. No matter how hard it is today for the visual arts, I don't believe in the death or deterioration of a whole artistic form. Especially of the original form of creating images, panel painting. Every form is a potential for the mind, refined throughout the centuries by our brains. This story - full of beauty and richness - has to continue, it cannot be stopped short. That's why I believe that the visual, the creative thought will always pass on their flowers. The picture - even while it teaches us to see, since we can perceive only that which our eyes have prepared us for - cannot show us its every potential. Therefore we have to learn to be able to understand an artistic form or a picture. During my long career as a teacher, it was always easy for me to teach that which makes sense, because I only needed to provide lucid explanations. Creativity is easy to teach. That's why bombarding people with information to give them something to put together seems like begging the question to me. Creativity works from the customer's own materials, only the way of putting it all together is ever changing. The hardest thing to teach is the sensitivity of the eye. It matures extremely slowly. It is like having an ear for music.
