Antony Gormley Quotes
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.
We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.
Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.
My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.
I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.
I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.
