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Joseph Beuys

"Art alone makes life possible â€“ this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological termsâ€¦ I would say man does not consist only of chemical processes, but also of metaphysical occurrences. The provocateur of the chemical processes is located outside the world. Man is only truly alive when he realizes he is a creative, artistic beingâ€¦ Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act."

Source : Interview in "Artforum" Magazine, November 1969; as quoted in "Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972" by Lucy R. Lippard, University of California Press, (p. 121), 1973.

Joseph Beuys

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“To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.”
“Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.”
“I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.”
“Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.”
“...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it.”
“If everyone is speaking caterpillar, donâ€™t be afraid to speak butterfly. When itâ€™s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.”
“Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth”

Source : "Affronts, Insults and Indignities". Book by Morris Mandel, 1975.
“here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.”

Source : Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

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