essentiality (n.)
mid-14c., “that is such by its essence,” from Late Latin essentialis, from essentia “essence”. Meaning “pertaining to essence” comes from late 14c., that of “constituting the essence of something” is from 1540s; that of “necessary” is from 1520s. Essentials: “indispensable elements” … early 16c.
My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child—incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven’t met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children. We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts or it has no meaning at all.
