Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuyswas a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth12 May 1921
CountryGermany
Joseph Beuys quotes about
artist humans human-beings
Every human being is an artist
kind university
In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
circles creative would-be
Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.
stress priorities needs
So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and the need to come up with a completely different plan for working with substances. For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
teacher art works-of-art
To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.
hands ideas special
I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the idea of aesthetics directly in the context of human existence, and then I have the whole problem in the hand, them I have not a special problem, I have a "holography" (reacting on a former suggestion of the public as a slight joke, fh) I don't know exactly what a holography is.. (1973
artist design
Everyone is an artist.