I've often been asked if Judo has played a role in my pictorial conception. Until now, I've always said no. In fact, that's not true: judo has given me a great deal, and I started almost at the same time as my painting. Both have lived with me in the same way that I live with my physical body!
Here's what I know about judo:
First of all, a major principle: "have the spirit of victory". Defeats must be seen as important steps towards final victory. Small victories as dangerous defeats for final victory. As soon as you realise that Final Victory has been achieved, the danger of definitive defeat looms. As soon as Final Victory is definitively won, you have one more enemy, yourself. The defeated enemy knows this and counts on it for revenge.
The Kiai :
1° Our physical body is made up of a skeleton and flesh. The spinal cord, a substance almost identical to that of the brain, circulates in the bones. The bones are the lines of the body, the line is the intellect, reason, academicism, the flesh, passion, what was created by the intellect in man after the fall, original sin, and this is what sustains him while living only thanks to it. The spirit, pure sensitivity, life itself in man is outside all that, although linked to the physical and emotional (sic)!
The ordinary judoka does not practise in spirit but in physical and emotional terms. The true judoka practises in spirit and pure sensitivity and then, as life is a constant victory, he wins, he always wins. It is the intellect, the reason, which creates the physical moment, through the bones, starting from the brain.
2° During a Judo competition, if one of the two opponents is an ordinary judoka, a feeling of anxiety grips him in the presence of his opponent. If the other opponent is a real Judoka, he may also have this feeling of anxiety.
The consequence of this is that in both adversaries the blood gathers and tightens against the bones, passion takes refuge against reason, paralysing the joints and preventing any movement of the skeleton. This is fear. A man who is afraid is white because the blood is no longer impregnated everywhere in the tissues right up to the skin, and because of this the skin appears white. The reason for all this is that in the heart...
Here's what I know about judo:
First of all, a major principle: "have the spirit of victory". Defeats must be seen as important steps towards final victory. Small victories as dangerous defeats for final victory. As soon as you realise that Final Victory has been achieved, the danger of definitive defeat looms. As soon as Final Victory is definitively won, you have one more enemy, yourself. The defeated enemy knows this and counts on it for revenge.
The Kiai :
1° Our physical body is made up of a skeleton and flesh. The spinal cord, a substance almost identical to that of the brain, circulates in the bones. The bones are the lines of the body, the line is the intellect, reason, academicism, the flesh, passion, what was created by the intellect in man after the fall, original sin, and this is what sustains him while living only thanks to it. The spirit, pure sensitivity, life itself in man is outside all that, although linked to the physical and emotional (sic)!
The ordinary judoka does not practise in spirit but in physical and emotional terms. The true judoka practises in spirit and pure sensitivity and then, as life is a constant victory, he wins, he always wins. It is the intellect, the reason, which creates the physical moment, through the bones, starting from the brain.
2° During a Judo competition, if one of the two opponents is an ordinary judoka, a feeling of anxiety grips him in the presence of his opponent. If the other opponent is a real Judoka, he may also have this feeling of anxiety.
The consequence of this is that in both adversaries the blood gathers and tightens against the bones, passion takes refuge against reason, paralysing the joints and preventing any movement of the skeleton. This is fear. A man who is afraid is white because the blood is no longer impregnated everywhere in the tissues right up to the skin, and because of this the skin appears white. The reason for all this is that in the heart...
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