Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, OBEis a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010, in São Paulo, in 2012, and in Hong Kong in 2015-16...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth30 August 1950
catholic monk educated
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
beautiful art everyday
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.
art believe views
Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.
art understanding art-is
Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.
art mean alive
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.
art moving eye
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 believe cities
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
human related scale
I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.
darkness body appearance
Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.
art jobs acceptable
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
art mean past
Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
thinking people joy
Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.
museums conversation valuable
It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.
want language ends
I want to start where language ends.