I had the feeling that another kind of life — perhaps in a transcendental area — would give me a better possibility to influence, or to work, or to act within this contradiction. So, this was my general feeling: on the one side, this beautiful undamaged nature form which I took a lot and had a lot of possibilities for contemplation, meditation, research, collecting things, making a kind of system; and on the other side, this social debacle that I felt already as a coming dilemma.


p. 62; also quoted in: Video Data Bank, School/Art Institute Chicago, (1981) Profile, Volume 1 - Interview with Kate Horsefield, 1980

Joseph Beuys Quotes

I had the feeling that another kind of life — perhaps in a transcendental area — would give me a better possibility to influence, or to work, or...

I had the feeling that another kind of life — perhaps in a transcendental area — would give me a better possibility to influence, or to work, or...

I had the feeling that another kind of life — perhaps in a transcendental area — would give me a better possibility to influence, or to work, or...

I had the feeling that another kind of life — perhaps in a transcendental area — would give me a better possibility to influence, or to work, or...