Top 17 Luc Tuymans Quotes
#1. All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.
Luc Tuymans
#2. I felt that blush in my chest as we talked stupid talk never quite revealing our queerness to each other but somehow wordlessly generating volumes of desire like some kind of sublanguage that makes you want to splash into it even with all its tensions.
David Wojnarowicz
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.
Luc Tuymans
#6. It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.
Luc Tuymans
#7. When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.
Luc Tuymans
#10. 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 starts to emerge and come together, pleasure kicks in. And then you can see things that no other person can see.
Luc Tuymans
#11. 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 topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.
Luc Tuymans
#12. When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.
Luc Tuymans
#13. 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. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.
Luc Tuymans
#14. Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
Bill Hybels
#15. Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.
T.D. Jakes
#16. Friends don't make friends walk uphill before 11:00 am
Noelle Hancock
#17. The activity has pumped out his chest and hardened his abs, and I can't believe I'm even noticing or appreciating it. His smile is naughty, the muscles in his shoulders thick and ripped, undulating with his movement when he adjusts his position for me to get an eyeful.
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