Joseph Beuys Quotes
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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 included...…
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Every man is an artist.
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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…
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In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
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Truth must be found in reality, not systems.
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Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable…
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Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.
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Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order…
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I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
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Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and here is the…
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Art for me is the science of freedom.
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Everyone is an artist.
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To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.
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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…
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To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.
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Every human being is an artist
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So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and…
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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 of…
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