Luc Tuymans Quotes

• When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

  Luc Tuymans

  Painting, Intensity, Concentration

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• When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I get to the studio and, once the image starts to emerge and come together, pleasure kicks in. And then you can see things that no other person can see.

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  Real, Agony, Anxiety

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• All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

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  Art, Failure, Different

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• If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.

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  Emotional, People, Elements

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• It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

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  Eye, People, Important

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• Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

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  Art, Wall, Politics

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• Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

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  Lying, Essence, Point Break

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• Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.

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  Believe, Persistence, Giving

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• When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

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  Art, Answers, Paint

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• Una obra de arte debería apuntar en más de una dirección, no ser esta especie de elemento aplacador, autodemostrador y testimonial.

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  One Direction, Self, Elements

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