Top 20 Joseph Beuys Quotes
#1. Art is not there simply to be understood ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
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#2. I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
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#3. Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.
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#4. 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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#5. In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
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#6. I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
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#7. To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.
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#9. Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included ... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
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#10. To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.
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#11. Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and here is the point of origin of sculpture. For me the formation of the thought is already sculpture. The thought is sculpture.
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#13. Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.
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#14. 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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#17. The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.
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#18. Truth must be found in reality, not systems.
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#19. Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?
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#20. 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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