Occupation: Artist Birth: May 12, 1921 Death: January 23, 1986
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time..
The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot ….
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 ….
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, s….
Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which c….
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion..
Every human being is an artist.
To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom..
Truth must be found in reality, not systems..
For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear..
Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that sha….
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 ….
I work in the field of art, and you know how during a period of Marxist ideology, fewer people are inclined to believe in the power of the culture as….
I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repress….
So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and the need to come up with a com….
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 wit….
I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of crazy creativity. A crea….
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in ord….
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 physiologic….
Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?.
Art for me is the science of freedom..