Antoni Tàpies Quote

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.


In an interview on the BBC arts program 'Omnibus', (1990); as quoted in 'Antoni Tàpies a Painter With Textures, Dies at 88', by William Grimes, in 'The New York Times', 8 Febr, 2012, p. B17


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...

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...

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...

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...