..[the walls in the city] witnessed the martyrdom and the inhumane repression inflicted on our people. - Antoni Tàpies

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main purpose had to be, to realise as sacred art anything which so far had been regarded as of little value and pitiful. [quote from 1988]

The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the thousand and one emotions and visions.