JOSEPH BEUYS QUOTES

“Everyone is an artist.”

“Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.”

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.”

“Art is the highest form of hope.”

“I’m seeking for the meaning of life and the position of man in this universe.”

“All art is part of the problem, and part of the solution.”

“To make the beginning is one thing – to persist to the end is another.”

“We need to have an inner revolution.”

“The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.” “Teaching is my greatest work of art.”

“The future of the revolution depends on five minutes of conversation.”

“I think the ecological relationship we are facing now becomes more and more important. To me, it is like the relationship of the egg to the hen.”

“Freedom is not a given – it must be taken.” CONTEMPT PRIOR TO INVESTIGATION QUOTE

“This is not art. I am working here on something much bigger than art.”

“I want to provoke people into using their creativity.”

“Language is the mother of thought, not the hand.”

“Art to me is the translation of a thought, an idea into a form that we can perceive visually and that stimulates our emotional and intellectual life.”

“Art is the only possibility for evolution, the only possibility to change the situation in the world.”

“True art is not a loan. It is a gift.”

“I do not want to be an artist – I want to be a messiah.”

“An artist is a state of being, not a profession.”

“Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.”

“If I make art, it has to be with a sense of responsibility.”

“Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and define our lives.”