Antony Gormley

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

— Antony Gormley

I want to start where language ends.

— Antony Gormley

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

— Antony Gormley

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

— Antony Gormley

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

— Antony Gormley

We're not on a journey to a goal, the goal is with us changing with us.

— Antony Gormley

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

— Antony Gormley

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

— Antony Gormley

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

— Antony Gormley

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

— Antony Gormley

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

— Antony Gormley

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

— Antony Gormley

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a…

— Antony Gormley

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

— Antony Gormley

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking…

— Antony Gormley

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with…

— Antony Gormley

Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts…

— Antony Gormley

Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget…

— Antony Gormley

I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife -…

— Antony Gormley

How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of…

— Antony Gormley

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in…

— Antony Gormley

It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something…

— Antony Gormley

The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within…

— Antony Gormley

Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people…

— Antony Gormley

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

— Antony Gormley

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

— Antony Gormley

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

— Antony Gormley

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all…

— Antony Gormley

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My…

— Antony Gormley

Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't…

— Antony Gormley

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things,…

— Antony Gormley

I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not…

— Antony Gormley

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been…

— Antony Gormley

Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces…

— Antony Gormley

Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is…

— Antony Gormley

I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt…

— Antony Gormley

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art…

— Antony Gormley

'6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it…

— Antony Gormley

Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of,…

— Antony Gormley

We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art…

— Antony Gormley