Antoni Tapies Quotes

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it.

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees is indispensable if one is to continue to observe or reflect... What is philosophy today... if it does not consist in, instead of legitimizing what we already know, undertaking to know how and how far it might be possible to think otherwise?

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.