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I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.

— Antoni Tàpies Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003 (2004)

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