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Joseph Beuys

"A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co- creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not beenreached.Whether peopleare artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole."

Source : 1972 From an interview with G Jappe (translated by J Wheelwright), in Studio International, vol.184, no.950, Dec. Quoted in C Harrison and P Wood (eds) Art in Theory 1900-1990 (1992).

Joseph Beuys

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“Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, whatâ€™s your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death”

Source : Tim Krabbé, Tim Krabbe, Sam Garrett (2003). “The Rider”, p.69, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.”

Source : "Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work". Book by Bert Van Bork, p. 199, 1966.
“There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.”
“So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole.”
“With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.”
“Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.”
“Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.”
“If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.”

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