Antoni Tapies Quotes

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Image, Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done,

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Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush... there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.

—Antoni Tapies

Image, The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is

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The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

—Antoni Tapies

Image, Which country is real, mine or the teacher’s? My wish is that

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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 and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

—Antoni Tapies

Image, Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of

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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 the reality of the material - from this tension - is born an equilibrium.

—Antoni Tapies

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Image, If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest

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If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

—Antoni Tapies

Image, The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a

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The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.

—Antoni Tapies

Image, My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of

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My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.

—Antoni Tapies

Image, Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a

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Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.

—Antoni Tapies

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Image, They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes.

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They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

—Antoni Tapies

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

—Antoni Tapies

Image, It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing

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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 subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.

—Antoni Tapies

Image, In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in

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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

—Antoni Tapies

Image, When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity

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When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

—Antoni Tapies

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Image, All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea.

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All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.

—Antoni Tapies

Image, With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation;

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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 the means that I employ to create the necessary stimulus to be as direct as possible. Instead of giving a sermon on humility, I often prefer to depict humility itself.

—Antoni Tapies

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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

—Antoni Tapies

Image, There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of

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There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.