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Joseph Beuys Quotes: Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.
         

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


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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

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



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

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



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

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



Every human being is an artist

Every human being is an artist



Art for me is the science of freedom.

Art for me is the science of freedom.



Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.



I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.



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

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



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

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



To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.





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