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“Truth must be found in reality, not systems.”

Quote by Joseph Beuys

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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. more

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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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“I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.”

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“Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.”

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“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.”

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“Art for me is the science of freedom.”

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“There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.”

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“What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.”

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