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 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
