Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

- Antony Gormley

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

- Antony Gormley

I want to start where language ends.

- Antony Gormley

Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and …

- Antony Gormley

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

- Antony Gormley

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

- Antony Gormley

Our appearance belongs to others, we live in the darkness of the body-part of all darkness but felt.

- Antony Gormley

I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can …

- Antony Gormley

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desire…

- Antony Gormley