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: the…

- Antoni Tapies

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

- Antoni Tapies

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 …

- Antoni Tapies

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 l…

- Antoni Tapies

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 imagi…

- Antoni Tapies

Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, …

- Antoni Tapies

Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying w…

- Antoni Tapies

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of …

- Antoni Tapies

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

- Antoni Tapies