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Joseph Beuys Biography

Joseph Beuys (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs]; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue.

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Everyone is an artist.

Artist, Design, Everyone

Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?

Ended, Ifs, Intelligent

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

Describe, Hand, Hands, Holography, Ideas, Special

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.

Dead, Events, Historical, People, Situation

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Element, Elements, Regeneration, Think, Thinking, Tree

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.

Act, Circles, Concerned, Creative, Dignity, Would Be

Every man is an artist.

Artist, Artistic, Man, Men

Art for me is the science of freedom.

Art, Freedom, Science

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

Artist, Determine, Men, Plastic, Things

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.

Already, Art, Boring, Expressionistic, Writing, Years

Every human being is an artist

Artist, Human, Human Beings, Humans

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.

Free, Men, Origin, Sculpture, Social, Thinking

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.

Attitude, Crazy, Creativity, Fired, Isolated

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Art, Teacher, Work, Works Of Art

Art is not there simply to be understood. . . . It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

Art, Simply, Suggestion, Suggestions, Understood

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.

Different, Plan, Priorities, Speaks, Stress, Universities

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.

Growing, Sculpture, Think, Thinking, Time, Tree

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

Art, Inform, Inspirational, Lives, Motivational, Reshaping

I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details.

Art, Contrary, Evolutionary, Political, Thinking, Weapon

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

Found, Reality, Systems, Truth

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