'Saura's portraits are dissolved into wild shapes and violently convulsive movements. It is as though the inner life of the facial traits had been brought to melting point by some volcanic force. Saura concentrates the destructive energies by leaving the background of the picture flat and untouched...Light and dark patches collide with each other seem to discharge their contradictory energy in an explosion.' - Siegfried Gohr in: Antonio Saura, exh. cat., Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, 1994, pp. 56-58