An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that… — 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, which confront him in a tactile way with the final and deepest problems of our existence. I want… — 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
