Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms... Joseph Beuys More Quotes by Joseph Beuys More Quotes From Joseph Beuys To be a teacher is my greatest work of art. Joseph Beuys works-of-art teacher art Truth must be found in reality, not systems. Joseph Beuys found reality 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. Joseph Beuys writing years art 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 Joseph Beuys special hands ideas Every man is an artist. Joseph Beuys artistic artist men 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. Joseph Beuys events historical people Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself. Joseph Beuys plastic artist men Everyone is an artist. Joseph Beuys design artist 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. Joseph Beuys future society positive life
