Talk:Antoni Tàpies

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• My kind of painting is filled with several significant layers, such as a volatile structure of language. Reality never truly exposes itself in the image. It only comes into being through associations in the mind of the spectator. That which is supposed to be reality in the art of painting is nothing but a symbol, a mystic symbol for reality.(1987)(translation C. Whorall)

• 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.(translation C. Whorall)

• More than any other factor the discontent about the quality of the oil painting and my dissatisfaction with the belief in the accepted, classical world played a major part. That is why everything I did seemed to me a form of abuse of the right minded. (1977)(translation C. Whorall)

• I was particularly fascinated by the numerous phenomena, closely related to the deed of creation itself as well as the shapes and images defined by the spectator.(translation C. Whorall)

• There is no art where there is no active observer. As there is no light where there are no eyes.

• More important than subjecting the image to a strict intellectual analysis is enabling the observer to follow the on set, which being more or less clear to him – turns his mind into motion.