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
artist design
Everyone is an artist.
artist humans human-beings
Every human being is an artist
thinking artist shapes
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
men artist every-man
Every man is an artist.
men artist plastic
Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.
among beings human nature outside problems wish
I wish to go more and more outside to be among the problems of nature and problems of human beings in their working places.
body enterprise future humankind life outside positive prepare society start symbolic wished within
I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
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
attitude crazy creativity
I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of crazy creativity. A creativity without morals fired only by the energy of freedom and the rejection of all codes and laws. For freedom rejects the dictated roles of the law and of the imposed order and for this reason is isolated.
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.
art quality principles
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
ideas self ego
The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.
art
Art for me is the science of freedom.