Comprehensive Quote by Antoni Tapies

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

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

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

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

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

— Antoni Tapies

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

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

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

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

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

— Antoni Tapies

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

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