A Mexican sculptor must have deep beliefs – Germán Arzate Garza

I consider myself a Mexican sculptor with deep beliefs. I’m always proud to represent Mexico in my creative as well as professional aspect. What are my deepest beliefs?

My deepest belief is the evolution of the self, it’s about searching and finding what and why you are in this life, what you are going to do for yourself, for others, and for your planet. What legacy will you leave as a Mexican sculptor? What will you learn? That is one of the biggest beliefs that sometimes help us to manifest or limits us.

The idea of a better world, of a better country.

As a Mexican sculptor, I have the idea that we can live in a healthy coexistence. It has always been part of my existence, part of my life, sometimes it is difficult to find many people who know many “how not” about things. I believe we can better seek the “how can do”. The “how can do, it is possible”. “It can be achieved”. “It can be reached”.

We can live, see how to help you, how you help me, how we help each other. The beliefs that any creator or Mexican sculptor can implant in your family, in your society, in your community, you see them, feel them, live them, sometimes suffer them and enjoy them, but if you believe in them, they are yours.

That happens within every Mexican sculptor or creator in general.

Sometimes you have limiting beliefs: “I can’t do it”, “I shouldn’t do it”. Sometimes as a Mexican sculptor or as a creator in general, you work with your ego, with your inner self, with your ego without ignoring everything around us.

That shapes you as a person, that shapes you as an artist and sculptor in Mexico, that makes you a person who not only transits the planet. If your beliefs are going to turn out positive, you will surely leave something.

Be very careful with your beliefs because they can lead you to fly very high or very low, and if you fly low, you will have consequences, and if you fly high, you have to be prepared for strong winds.

Sometimes the turns that life gives you… those beliefs have to be well worked out in your person. I personally believe that the beliefs that a Mexican sculptor has are complex, because they tell you or tell you that you should be like such and such an artist, or apply this technique or whatever is in vogue.

I believe that great Mexican sculptors follow an original approach, a way, an idea full of tenacity… no matter what or who you have to go against, your mission is to express what you think. To express your essence, your strength, your drive in art, in your collection of sculptures, in your technique, that is one of the most difficult things.

If a Mexican sculptor tells you that he did not follow his beliefs, he was not a great artist.

You have to dream it, suffer it, enjoy it, and there it stays, those beliefs of yours as an artist are embodied. It doesn’t matter if they please or not, those beliefs are embodied in the art you make. The most difficult thing sometimes with beliefs is that first you have to believe them and say “but where did this belief come from or why do I have this way of thinking and feeling?”

“Why don’t I just look like such and such a Mexican sculptor” or “Why don’t I just implement this technique like that artist?”

The most important thing is when an artist puts his beliefs in front and says “this is what I’m going to do and this is how I’m going to express it” and that’s how I’m going to do it and execute it.”

This creates the Mexican sculptor, forges him, makes him great; thus, he transcends, lives, and also places perpetuity in his art, legacy, person, individual. But you also know yourself as part of a society, a generation, a town, and a historical moment. These beliefs in the Mexican sculptor must be grounded in what he feels in his intuition, they are what make him vibrate. Be very careful, be very careful not to ignore them.

Good, bad, or horrible, society often judges you, but whoever knows his own is not affected by it, the Mexican sculptor is the one who lives it inside, who vibrates with it, and who enjoys it.

Only you know if you have the right beliefs.

That is the best thing that can happen to you, that your well-founded beliefs are well anchored to your person and to you, how you live and enjoy them. Every Mexican sculptor knows what makes him celebrate life and enjoy his work.