Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
Joseph BeuysMan 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.
Joseph BeuysEvery 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
Joseph BeuysFor instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
Joseph BeuysMoney 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.
Joseph Beuys