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.

- Luc Tuymans

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

- Luc Tuymans

Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topica…

- Luc Tuymans

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

- Luc Tuymans

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

- Luc Tuymans

If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strang…

- Luc Tuymans

When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I get to the studio and, once the image s…

- Luc Tuymans

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

- Luc Tuymans

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

- Luc Tuymans