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Joseph Beuys was a German artist known for his social-political art and action art. His work often addressed environmental, social, and political issues, and had a profound impact on contemporary art with his unique artistic practice and ideas.

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“A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached. Whether people are artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.”

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“Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.”

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“Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms... Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.”

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“Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.”

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“To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.”

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Book:Beuys Kompass: ein Lexikon zu den Gesprächen von Joseph Beuys

Source: Beuys Kompass: ein Lexikon zu den Gesprächen von Joseph Beuys

About the Author

Born: May 12, 1921
Died: January 23, 1986
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 29

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