Joseph Beuys citáty

Joseph Heinrich Beuys byl německý performer, sochař, malíř, estetik, filozof a teoretik umění, pedagog Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

V České republice se proslavil tím, že Milan Knížák zakoupil jeho dílo Auto do národní galerie za 500 000 Euro. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. květen 1921 – 23. leden 1986
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Joseph Beuys: Citáty anglicky

“Truth must be found in reality, not systems.”

Zdroj: What Is Art?: Conversations with Joseph Beuys

“He [ Marcel Duchamp ] entered this object [the 'Urinal' ready-made] into the museum and noticed that its transportation from one place to another made it into art. But he failed to draw the clear and simple conclusion that every man is an artist.”

as quoted in Joseph Beuys and the Celtic Wor(l)d: A Language of Healing, by Victoria Walters, LIT Verlag Münster, 2012, p. 206
Quotes after 1984, posthumous published

“Art is the only power to free humankind from all repression.”

Zdroj: 1970's, Joseph Beuys... Public Dialogue' 1974, p. 5

“I try to go further on over the threshold where modern art ends and anthropological art has to start.”

Quote by Furlang, 1974, p. 7; as quoted in Joseph Beuys and the Celtic Wor(l)d: A Language of Healing, Victoria Walters, LIT Verlag Münster, 2012, p. 206
1970's

“This is precisely what the shaman does in order to bring about change and development: his nature is therapeutic.”

Quote of Donald Kuspit, The Cult of the Avant-garde Artist, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 95
Quotes after 1984, posthumous published

“Fat' traverses the path from a chaotically dispersed, undirected energy form to a form. Then it appears in the famous fat corner.... now [a wedge of fat in the angle between seat and back of the wooden old Chair, Beuys used in the fat-sculpture, like 'Stuhl mit Fett' (Fet Chair), 1964] intersects the human body in the region that houses certain emotional forces”

Beuys laughed, and so did everyone else of the public
In a public debate at the Kunstring (Artcircle) Folkwang in Essen, 1972; (Stachelhaus 1991, p. 71); as quoted in Joseph Beuys and the Celtic Wor(l)d: A Language of Healing, Victoria Walters, LIT Verlag Münster, 2012, p. 29
1970's

“My intention: healthy chaos, healthy amorphousness in a known medium which consciously warmed a cold, torpid form from the past, a convention of society, and which makes possible future forms.”

Quote of Donald Kuspit, The Cult of the Avant-garde Artist, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 93
Quotes after 1984, posthumous published