To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings. A reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once. — 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 activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of 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 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 if I do not have a very clear idea of what I am going to do. As I go along with my work I formulate my thought, and from this struggle between what I want and… — 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 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
