Artist Quotes by Joseph Beuys

Every man is an artist.

— Joseph Beuys

Art for me is the science of freedom.

— Joseph Beuys

Every human being is an artist

— Joseph Beuys

Everyone is an artist.

— Joseph Beuys

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

— Joseph Beuys

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

— Joseph Beuys

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

— Joseph Beuys

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

— 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…

— Joseph Beuys

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of…

— Joseph Beuys

Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively…

— Joseph Beuys

Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art…

— Joseph Beuys

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to…

— Joseph Beuys

Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and…

— Joseph Beuys

Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art…

— Joseph Beuys

The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a…

— Joseph Beuys

I work in the field of art, and you know how during a period of Marxist ideology, fewer people are inclined to…

— Joseph Beuys