"The painter's new work, is it by him?—that's the first question that inadvertently crept on my lips. But that was a reflex. Then I reminded myself that to live is to change, that it is to feel onself being made, to feel that one exists in spite of all changes within or without. Thus, it seems to me, that art brings fresh succour to consciousness, that every true artist becomes a universal constant by means of as many soundings as are possible. An artist becomes a unique witness to the life of his mind, the life of his inner being. And so, the more disparate he appears, the larger will be the number of people who recognize themselves in his work. In his new art this painter turns away from contextual compulsion, towards pure disinterestedness.
That's the only way one can describe the painter's fresh genre, a spiritual act committing body and spirit together. It is a man expressing himself at his higher but most fragile level where matter and the unknown unite. In art the striving of substance and the concentration of the spirit are inseparable. The words 'spiritual act' imply an insoluble contradiction in terms, showing what a mystery underlies art, why it refuses all technical analysis. The rational approach to art is blocked off by paradox. Art is the only moment when mind, without ceasing to be mind, is converted into physical expansion, and when matter submits to the minds transcedence and is converted into speculation, a non-continent. If this be so one can see how art dies beneath social compulsion, why it shies of social power. Pure disinterestedness, it leads both maker and viewer away from worldly success.", writes Keshav Malik.