Roy Adzak (b.1927) Quoted in Contemporary Artists, 1977 Edited by Colin Naylor and Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

I want to arrive at a direct apprehension of reality without the intermediary of a concept. I often end up in darkness and failure because of the impossibility but I prefer it all to all of the other so-called marvels of the visionary world. Good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us. Its value lies in its power to modify and not merely to modify but reorganize our sensibility. For to submit to a new mode of seeing, to enter a world where we can be liberated from our stereotyped ways of seeing and feeling -- now that is more important to aim for all of one's life and perhaps never achieve than to aim for less and know that in the end you've made a bad investment with your life.