“I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.” ThinkingKindFormGrowingTreePlanetsElementsConceptsSymbolsSculptureOaksRegenerationConcept Of TimeGrowing Tree Author:Joseph Beuys
“The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a German sculptor of expressionistic style. This was perhaps the only example, Lehmbruck, between my sixteenth to nineteenth years in which I saw a possibility for art to be principally of interest to innovate some things, instead of writing a very boring, naturalistic repetition of what is already done by nature.” WritingYearsArtDoneInterestSawsStyleExamplePossibilityYouthOne DayPhotographBoringRepetitionSculptureSculptors Author:Joseph Beuys
“Man 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.” ThinkingMenSocialCircumstancesAspectDependentSculptureFormation Author:Joseph Beuys
