Top 36 Beuys Quotes
#1. When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.
Jerry Saltz
#2. 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.
Joseph Beuys
#3. When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#4. 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.
Joseph Beuys
#5. 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
Joseph Beuys
#7. 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.
Joseph Beuys
#8. The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
Umera Ahmad
#9. In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#10. Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety and try to articulate every minute detail, or to go for the broad strokes and hope that the people will fill in between the lines. I tend to go for the broader strokes.
Sylvester Stallone
#11. Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. Most people like me are having a tough time. But it's fine. I don't really think about it as a career. I don't need to have a million bucks, but it keeps me in music and without a day job, so it's working out fine.
Freedy Johnston
#14. No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida
#16. 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.
Joseph Beuys
#18. Truth must be found in reality, not systems.
Joseph Beuys
#19. Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?
Joseph Beuys
#20. I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.
Tawakkol Karman
#21. Art is not there simply to be understood ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
Joseph Beuys
#22. 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.
Joseph Beuys
#23. Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.
Joseph Beuys
#24. 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.
Joseph Beuys
#25. In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
Joseph Beuys
#26. I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
Joseph Beuys
#27. To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.
Joseph Beuys
#28. Let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#29. You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.
Lewis Carroll
#31. 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.
Joseph Beuys
#32. Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.
Pete Rose
#33. I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
Vince Flynn
#34. To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.
Joseph Beuys
#35. Sorrow comes in great waves ... but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
Henry James
#36. If true love came at a price, the price would be all worth while if i was spending it on you.
William Lane Craig
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