I work in the field of art, and you know how during a period of Marxist ideology, fewer people are inclined to believe in the power of the culture as a whole: they believe in the revolutionary potential of economics,… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a German sculptor… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear. — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
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… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of crazy creativity.… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
