Art Quote by Joseph Beuys Download Open image “Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.” — Joseph Beuys ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Determine Every man Men Plastic
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself. — Horace Pippin Copy Share Image
Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy 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
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
