Antony Gormley Quotes

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• Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.…
• We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose,…
• Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.
• I want to start where language ends.
• Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
• Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.
• Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural…
• I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st…
• I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and…
• I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are…
• How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a…
• I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.
• I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
• Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of…
• Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core…
• I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet.…
• I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
• I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way,…
• I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in…
• I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to…

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