What I did [his artistic work in the 1940's] also served as a way to spit in the face of the well-meaning bourgeoisie...

In 'Tapies, or the Materiality of Painting', by Klaus Dirscherl; as quoted in Materialities of Communication, ed. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer, Stanford University Press, 1988, p. 184