Luc Tuymans Quotes
When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.
Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.
It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.
An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.
Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.
When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.