Quotes by Antoni Tapies

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 its first relevance.

Firsts

Shapes

Space

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.

Artist

Chinese

Ideas

An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discover the truth, because of his own efforts.

Doors

Effort

Mean

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

Art

Meaning Of Life

Thinking

I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.

Desire

Generosity

Needs

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.

Ideas

Political

Views

I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

Anxiety

Feelings

Worry

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.

Creative

Imagination

Important

In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context, is by far the most radical – in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan – paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.

Art

Taken

Usual

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.

Attention

Attitude

Law

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Chinese

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Everyday

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Highest

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Law

Lying

Materials

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Needs

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Quotes by Antoni Tapies

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 its first relevance.

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.

An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discover the truth, because of his own efforts.

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

I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.

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.

I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

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.

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