Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.
Antony GormleyOur appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.
Antony GormleyArt has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
Antony GormleyArt is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
Antony Gormley