“My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.”

— Antoni Tàpies

a quote from Tàpies' talk, when his museum opened in 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
1981 - 1990

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Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist 1923–2012

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