On many occasions and when talking to other artists, I have heard about the obsession of some to try to find the connection between the finished work and the external world. I, however, I am convinced that the work has to come from the interior of the artist, without the work having to be subject to that connection. 

The freedom of creation the painter has must be taken to the maximum extremes. When executing a work of art, we have to cut all the links joining the intrinsic with the extrinsic in the sense that that union with the interior does not limit nor condition any single stroke, any single nuance of colour. The work that is born pure, from the inside of the artist, and once shown, answers to all the external feelings, in that union of the spiritual with the material, in that communion that must exist between the work and the viewer, it must be a combination of love and not of analysis.

Jorge Rando, Malaga, January 2003