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I react strongly to images that have no obvious answer to their mysteries. If there is a key to their construction, they are simply illustration. Meaning is meaningless to me. I do not care for symbolism and I paint what I paint without meditating on a story

— Zdzisław Beksiński, http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9424

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