Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. — Antoni Tapies Art Copy Share Image
If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it. — Antoni Tapies Change Copy Share Image
Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. — Antoni Tapies Artist Copy Share Image
My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way… — Antoni Tapies Can't change 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 Artist 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 Aesthetic Copy Share Image
A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious; such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first… — Antoni Tapies Coordinator Copy Share Image
When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is… — Antoni Tapies Always thinking 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 Artist Copy Share Image
The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find… — 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
Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we… — Antoni Tapies Art 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 Advice 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 Art 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 Abstract 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 Absurdity Copy Share Image
It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned… — 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 Apparitions 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 Art Copy Share Image
To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings. A… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them,… — Antoni Tapies Authenticity 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 Art Copy Share Image
I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects,… — Antoni Tapies Alienation Copy Share Image
At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I… — Antoni Tapies Anxiety 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 Artist Copy Share Image
