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> [Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/money-has-to-undergo-a-metamorphosis-again-it-has-to-relinquish-its/)

[Joseph Beuys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-beuys/)

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## More by Joseph Beuys

> [Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/only-art-is-capable-of-dismantling-the-repressive-effects-of-a-senile/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/the-only-hope-i-had-was-when-in-his-youth-i-saw-one-day-a-photograph/)

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> [In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/in-places-like-universities-where-everyone-talks-too-rationally-it-is/)

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> [I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/i-wished-to-go-completely-outside-and-to-make-a-symbolic-start-for-my/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/a-total-work-of-art-is-only-possible-in-the-context-of-the-whole-of/)

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> [Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/every-man-is-a-plastic-artist-who-must-determine-things-for-himself/)

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> [Truth must be found in reality, not systems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/truth-must-be-found-in-reality-not-systems/)

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> [After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/after-i-am-dead-i-would-like-people-to-say-beuys-understood-the/)

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> [Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/where-would-i-have-ended-up-if-i-had-been-intelligent/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/let-s-talk-of-a-system-that-transforms-all-the-social-organisms-into/)

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> [Art for me is the science of freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/art-for-me-is-the-science-of-freedom/)

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> [I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of crazy creativity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/i-am-interested-in-the-creativity-of-the-criminal-attitude-because-i/)

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> [I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/i-think-the-tree-is-an-element-of-regeneration-which-in-itself-is-a/)

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> [Everyone is an artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/everyone-is-an-artist/)

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> [Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-beuys/art-is-not-there-simply-to-be-understood-it-is-more-the-sense-of-an/)

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