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Antoni Tapies Quotes

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

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

Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”

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

Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”

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.

"Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 24), 2004.

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.

"Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.

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.

"Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 27), 2004.