If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an… — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share
Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share
When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I… — Luc Tuymans Copy Share
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share
Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the… — Luc Tuymans Copy Share
If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the… — Luc Tuymans Copy Share
An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share
Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times… — Luc Tuymans Copy Share
It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share
