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.

p. 30 : About the ambivalence in his own work. - undated - 'Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003,' (2004)