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. Antony Gormley More Quotes by Antony Gormley More Quotes From Antony Gormley There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens. Antony Gormley youintelligenceexperiencelearning How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things? Antony Gormley youlivingsilentway I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun. Antony Gormley greatlightsunlife Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves. Antony Gormley futurefailurepoliticsart I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination. Antony Gormley medevilimaginationtime Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust. Antony Gormley rocksingleaustraliaearth The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead. Antony Gormley leadlandseawork I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn. Antony Gormley excitedwanthistorypeople I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies. Antony Gormley thinkblamebusinessart I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood. Antony Gormley terriblyi-feelfeelmisunderstood Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room. Antony Gormley openingspacewaywindow I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place. Antony Gormley greatarchitecturespacetime If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism. Antony Gormley youspeakworkpeople It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal. Antony Gormley museumseespecialart It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind. Antony Gormley lightworkweatherwind I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection. Antony Gormley makereflectionworktrying I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in. Antony Gormley sayspacebodyway I just want my work to be part of the elemental world. Antony Gormley justwantworkworld
