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Antoni Tapies Biography

Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies (Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ˈtapi.əs]; 13 December 1923 – 6 February 2012) was a Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation.

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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, Moral, Political, Purely, Values, Views

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

Color, Colors, Gray, Huge, Painting, Wrestling

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 the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

Art, Losing, Loss, Meaning, Religious

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 white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush. . . there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.

Artist, Embrace, Roots, Starting, White

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

Act, Block, Painting, Rational

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

Believe, Confidence, Country, Real, Teacher, Waiting

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, Conditions, Law, Precisely

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Attention, Lucky, Spectator, Taken, Thinking, Way

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

Art, Life, Meaning Of Life, Thinking, Viewer

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

Artist, Experience, Make, Perspective, Viewer

To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.

Achieve, Contact, Metaphysical, Reality, Thorough, Transcendence

There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea. . . that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

Appearance, Destruction, Drawing, Lying, Real, Visual

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.

People, Looks, World, Illusion, Look

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, Cuff, Feeling, Feelings, Worry

My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do. . . my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.

Activities, Believe, Grasp, Philosophical, Think, Thinking

Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main purpose had to be to realise as sacred art, anything which so far had been regarded as of little value and pitiful.

Art, Intention, Opposites, Purpose, Regarded, Valued

The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor does he intend to convert people by using mass communication techniques. . . Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody. He could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.

Awake, Communication, Convey, Dormant, Lying, Wise

The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.

Drawing, Exist, Material, Parted, Skins, Tattoo

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

Dilettante, Interested, Philosophy, Reflection, Study

The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me.

Age, Seemed, Suffering, Sufferings, Wall, Walls

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