Quotes by Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached. Whether people are artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.

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Nurse

After I am dead I would like people to say: ‘Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events’. I hope in the right direction.

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Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms… Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.

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Men

Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society — and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society — is not art.

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Doe

Art for me is the science of freedom.

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Art is not there simply to be understood. … It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

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Every human being is an artist

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Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

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Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

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Every man is an artist.

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Quotes by Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

After I am dead I would like people to say: ‘Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events’. I hope in the right direction.

Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms… Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.

Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society — and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society — is not art.

Art for me is the science of freedom.

Art is not there simply to be understood. … It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

Every human being is an artist

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

Every man is an artist.

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