“An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discover the truth, because of his own efforts.”

—  Antoni Tàpies

Source: undated quotes, Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 – 2003,' (2004), p. 30.

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