Joseph Beuys Short Quotes

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Art is the only power to free humankind from all repression.

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Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.

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I try to go further on over the threshold where modern art ends and anthropological art has to start.

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This is precisely what the shaman does in order to bring about change and development: his nature is therapeutic.

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School is universal. That means, on the street – when you talk about these things with people at the grocer's; the school is at the grocer's at that moment.

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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 in physiological terms.

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My intention: healthy chaos, healthy amorphousness in a known medium which consciously warmed a cold, torpid form from the past, a convention of society, and which makes possible future forms.

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This most modern art discipline - Social Sculpture / Social Architecture - will only reach fruition when every living person becomes a creator, a sculptor, or architect of the social organism.

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The nature of my sculpture is not fixed and finished. Processes continue in most of them: chemical reactions, fermentation, color changes, delays, drying up. Everything is in a STATE of CHANGE.

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Yes, now we are at the starting-point again. Now we are at our real issue: that we understand ourselves first as sites of education, for information for democracy, for tree-part structure, and so on.

Joseph Beuys