Antoni Quotes

#1. An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happen that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discovers the truth, because of his own efforts. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#2. The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#3. People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars. - Author: Antoni Lange

#4. There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. - Author: Antoni Gaudi

#5. Dead is the travel of all our travels. - Author: Antoni Lange

#6. 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 imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#7. 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. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#8. How many times have I created to destroy? - Author: Antoni Lange

#9. Be - fight - feel the pain - and love the wounds! - Author: Antoni Lange

#10. I ain't know what it is to be a girl Mistress Grandsol. I pass straight from child to woman without even a pause for girl between. Girl is a privilege I never know. - Author: Robert Antoni

#11. 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. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#12. force them to band together. Jim imagined himself and Franny striding into a Mallorcan courtroom, the bump on Franny's head now the size of a tennis ball, hard proof of Antoni's negligence. "And how are you?" Charles asked. He purposefully - Author: Emma Straub

#13. 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: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#14. Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. - Author: Antoni Gaudi

#15. 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. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#16. Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. - Author: Antoni Gaudi

#17. With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided that rather than describing the body, I would use the body, my body, as a tool for making art. - Author: Janine Antoni

#18. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. - Author: Antoni Gaudi

#19. 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. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#20. Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues. - Author: Antoni Zygmund

#21. Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#22. Copiers do not collaborate. - Author: Antoni Gaudi

#23. Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. - Author: Antoni Gaudi

#24. I dont only want to Be successful in life. I also want to Live a Life that the people will remember for a Better tomorrow - Author: Antoni Omeihe

#25. 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. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#26. I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#27. I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#28. Nothing is art if it does not come from nature. - Author: Antoni Gaudi

#29. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#30. 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. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#31. Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#32. 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. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#33. Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you. - Author: Antoni Zygmund

#34. The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God. - Author: Antoni Gaudi

#35. If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead! - Author: Antoni Omeihe

#36. 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. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#37. If fans are discouraged, find another team to root for. - Author: Mike D'Antoni

#38. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, painted here by his friend Jan Vermeer, was a self-taught instrument maker. - Author: Bill Bryson

#39. Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. - Author: Antoni Gaudi

#40. Dead is the cradle of everything. - Author: Antoni Lange

#41. 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. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#42. I loved life too much to lust for life. - Author: Antoni Lange

#43. You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line. - Author: Mike D'Antoni

#44. In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential. - Author: Antoni Gaudi

#45. Most of the time when there's a communication problem, it's because the message being received is not the message you want. It's not that they don't know what they need to do, how we need to act as a team, whatever. If you don't like the message, then you go say there's a communication problem. - Author: Mike D'Antoni

#46. 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. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#47. There's always a way! - Author: Anni Antoni

#48. There live Christ and Nero in our hearts. - Author: Antoni Lange

#49. The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#50. The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#51. 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 life. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#52. I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#53. Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#54. A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance. - Author: Antoni Tapies

#55. All our blasphemies are only little prayers. - Author: Antoni Lange

#56. The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. - Author: Antoni Gaudi