Antoni Tapies Quotes
If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
-
My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
-
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
-
If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
-
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
-
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
-
Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
-
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
-
I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
-
I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
-
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
-
I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.
-
I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
-
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
-
Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
-
I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
-
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
-
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-
I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing.
-
Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.
-
I know North Korea is the most ridiculous country in the world, but for me, my mum, my brother, and my families and old memories are so important.
-
The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
-
If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.
