Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. — 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
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
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
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. — 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 we believe… — 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 mind of… — 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 in the… — 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 possibilities, even… — 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 Japanese or… — Antoni Tapies 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 significance or… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
