Antoni Tapies Quotes
The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.
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.
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.
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious; such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.
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.
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.
My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.