… The fact that Perez Celis has achieved to unite with so much truth in his work the brilliance of the colors, the exaltation of the brushstrokes, buds with such touching resonances, is a clear proof of that thirst for spirituality that has always encouraged him. The anxious speculations about space and time correspond to his will to overcome and transcend. It is necessary to recognize that such position is infrequent since the invitation to evade, to incite meditation constitute in themselves a great responsibility to assume and few contemporary artists accept it.
However, for him, as he often says "in a time so agitated and threatened everywhere, painting must be a means of communication as any other, that helps men to endure adversities and have even more hope". Gaston Diehl A call to spiritual.