Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious; such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share
