METAPHYSICAL PAINTINGS by Julio Mateo: Abstract Art Galleries

"I can measure my life by the moments when art transformed me....
"It can happen anywhere, anytime.... Art can work its magic any time you are in the presence of a work created by someone who has gone inside the act of creation to become what they are creating.

"When this takes place time stands still and if our hearts are open to the experience,our spirits soar and our imaginations fly unfettered.

"You need these moments if you are ever to have a life that is more than the sum of the daily moments of humdrum affairs....

"Once you love an art enough that you can be taken up in it, you are able to experience an echo of the great creative act that mysteriously has given life to us all.

"It may be the closest any of us can get to God."