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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. [quote from 1988]

— Antoni Tàpies

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For in order to be born again, you must die.

..[the walls in the city] witnessed the martyrdom and the inhumane repression inflicted on our people.

In actual fact, contemplation is not a form of inactivity but an exercise.

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.

Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003 (2004)

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.

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