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
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.
artist design
Everyone is an artist.
art suggestions understood
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
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
men artist plastic
Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.
people historical events
After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.
reality found
Truth must be found in reality, not systems.
men artist every-man
Every man is an artist.
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.
men thinking sculpture
Man is really not freeing many aspects. He is dependent on his social circumstances, but he is free in his thinking, and here is the point of origin of sculpture. For me the formation of the thought is already sculpture. The thought is sculpture.
art writing years
The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a German sculptor of expressionistic style. This was perhaps the only example, Lehmbruck, between my sixteenth to nineteenth years in which I saw a possibility for art to be principally of interest to innovate some things, instead of writing a very boring, naturalistic repetition of what is already done by nature.
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.