Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Luc Tuymans

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Belgian artist Luc Tuymans.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Luc Tuymans is a Belgian visual artist best known for his paintings which explore people's relationship with history and confront their ability to ignore it. World War II is a recurring theme in his work. He is a key figure of the generation of European figurative painters who gained renown at a time when many believed the medium had lost its relevance due to the new digital age.

Belgian - Artist | Born: 1958

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

Luc Tuymans

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

Luc Tuymans

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.

Luc Tuymans

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.

Luc Tuymans

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

Luc Tuymans

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

Luc Tuymans

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

Luc Tuymans

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.

Luc Tuymans

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

Luc Tuymans

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.

Luc Tuymans