"One of the starting points for my inquiry were the impressionists, who saw, in color, the possibility to modify painting and art itself. That is to say, every generation creates a contradiction. The impressionists expressed color in a dynamic condition, but contained it in a static medium. What I attempted to do was to move beyond impressionism and search for the paradox. It is contradictory to have a metaphysical concept and express it materially through a static medium."
---Carlos Cruz Diez, 2016