"Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life."

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Source : Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”

Antoni Tapies

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“I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.”
“To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”
“A Colombia without coca and without conflict was an impossible dream just a few years or decades ago, and today I can tell you it is a real possibility. Just imagine it. We have already begun discussion of the last two substantive points: victims and the end of the conflict.”
“My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.”

Source : "Avs’ Sakic just like your average Joe". Interview with Adrian Dater, www.denverpost.com. October 10, 2007.
“Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.”
“The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.”

Source : "Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life".
“If you're not a full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now is the time to paint one on your heart-painted, as Paul said, 'not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.'”

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