Joseph Beuys Quotes

• 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 our lives

  Joseph Beuys

  Inspiración, motivación, arte

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• To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, People, Aim

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• I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Thinking, Political

  "The Role of Documentation in Conceptual Art: : An Aesthetic Inquiry". Book by Robert C. Morgan, 1978.

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• Sólo el arte hace posible la vida: así de radical me gustaría formularlo. Yo diría que sin arte el hombre es inconcebible en términos fisiológicos...
  Incluso el acto de pelar una patata puede ser un acto artístico si se hace conscientemente.

  Joseph Beuys

  Arte, Hombres, Creativos

  Interview in "Artforum" Magazine, November 1969; as quoted in "Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972" by Lucy R. Lippard, University of California Press, (p. 121), 1973.

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• Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Suggestions, Understood

  Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys (1979). “Joseph Beuys”

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• 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 social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached. Whether people are artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Democracies Have, Nurse

  1972 From an interview with G Jappe (translated by J Wheelwright), in Studio International, vol.184, no.950, Dec. Quoted in C Harrison and P Wood (eds) Art in Theory 1900-1990 (1992).

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• Every human being is an artist

  Joseph Beuys

  Artist, Humans, Human Beings

  Joseph Beuys (2010). “What is money?: a discussion”, p.1, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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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 is, an art which cannot mould society — and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society — is not art.

  Joseph Beuys

  Arte, Doe, Cultura

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• Art for me is the science of freedom.

  Joseph Beuys

  Arte

  YouTube Chanel "BeuysTV"/ "Joseph Beuys: 'Art for me is the science of freedom'", www.youtube.com. October 1, 2014.

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• For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

  Joseph Beuys

  Kind, University

  "Joseph Beuys".

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• Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?

  Joseph Beuys

  Intelligent, Ifs

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• Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

  Joseph Beuys

  Reality, Found

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• Sólo el arte es capaz de desmontar los efectos represivos de un sistema social senil que sigue tambaleándose en la línea de la muerte: desmontar para construir UN ORGANISMO SOCIAL COMO OBRA DE ARTE.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Order, Social

  Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys (1979). “Joseph Beuys”

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• To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

  Joseph Beuys

  Teacher, Art, Works Of Art

  Monika Angerbauer-Rau, Joseph Beuys (1998). “Beuys Kompass: ein Lexikon zu den Gesprächen von Joseph Beuys”, Dumont

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• Creo que el árbol es un elemento de regeneración, que en sí mismo es un concepto de tiempo. El roble lo es especialmente porque es un árbol que crece lentamente con una especie de duramen realmente sólido. Siempre ha sido una forma de escultura, un símbolo de este planeta.

  Joseph Beuys

  Thinking, Tree, Sculpture

  "Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change Since 1945". Book by Claudia Mesch, 2013.

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• Creo que el árbol es un elemento de regeneración que en sí mismo es un concepto de tiempo.

  Joseph Beuys

  Thinking, Tree, Elements

  "Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change Since 1945". Book by Claudia Mesch, 2013.

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• Me interesa la creatividad de la actitud criminal porque reconozco en ella la existencia de una condición especial de creatividad loca. Una creatividad sin moral alimentada únicamente por la energía de la libertad y el rechazo de todos los códigos y leyes. Porque la libertad rechaza los papeles dictados de la ley y del orden impuesto y por esta razón se aísla.

  Joseph Beuys

  Attitude, Crazy, Creativity

  "Beuys: Tracce in Italia". Book by Germano Celant, 1978.

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• The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.

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  Self, Ideas, Ego

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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 point of origin of sculpture. For me the formation of the thought is already sculpture. The thought is sculpture.

  Joseph Beuys

  Men, Thinking, Sculpture

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• Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.

  Joseph Beuys

  Circles, Creative, Would Be

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• I work in the field of art, and you know how during a period of Marxist ideology, fewer people are inclined to believe in the power of the culture as a whole: they believe in the revolutionary potential of economics, class struggle theory.. ..Therefore it's time to show that art means the power of creativity, and it's time to define art in a larger way, to include science and religion too..(1973

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  Art, Believe, Struggle

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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 the need to come up with a completely different plan for working with substances. For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

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  Stress, Priorities, Different

  Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Milwaukee Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum (1987). “Warhol/Beuys/Polke”

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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... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Quality, Principles

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• Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

  Joseph Beuys

  Artist, Men, Plastic

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• I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the idea of aesthetics directly in the context of human existence, and then I have the whole problem in the hand, them I have not a special problem, I have a "holography" (reacting on a former suggestion of the public as a slight joke, fh) I don't know exactly what a holography is.. (1973

  Joseph Beuys

  Hands, Ideas, Special

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