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Shared June 29, 2026
“In aesthetics, it is up to the mystics, and them alone, to discover the new ‘golden proportions’ of the soul of our time. If a great renaissance of mystical painting has not yet begun, it is because artists, lagging far behind current scientific progress, continue to dwell on the worst remnants of the poorest and emptiest materialism. It is because they have nothing to paint; today’s artists paint nothing, or to put it another way, they paint what has no form, no object, expresses nothing, no, no, no, no, no. NO! The negations and compromises are over, the surrealist malaise and existentialist anguish are over. Mysticism is extreme joy: the most intense and individual affirmation of all the distinct tendencies of the human being, united in a single moment of ecstasy. I want my next Christ to be a painting with more beauty and joy than anything that has been painted until now. I want to paint a Christ who is, in every sense, the absolute opposite of Grünewald’s materialistic and brutally anti-mystical Christ.” Dalí, April 15, 1951, at 3 a.m. — Mystical Manifesto, Robert Godet, 1951
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