34 Quotes by Joseph Beuys

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

I wish to go more and more outside to be among the problems of nature and problems of human beings in their working places.

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

Everyone is an artist.

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

I describe it ( the new aesthetics) 'radically': I say aesthetics = human being. That is a radical formula. I set the idea of aesthetics directly in the context of human existence, and then I have the whole problem in the hand, them I have not a special problem, I have a "holography" (reacting on a former suggestion of the public as a slight joke, fh) I don't know exactly what a holography is.. (1973

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

Every man is an artist.