It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.
Interpretation
Art should be accessible to everyone and not confined to special environments like museums.
Antony Gormley's quote emphasizes the idea that art should not be restricted to institutional settings like museums, which can make it feel exclusive and distant. He advocates for a more universal approach to art, where it can be experienced and appreciated by all, regardless of location or context, highlighting the importance of accessibility and inclusivity in the art world.
In practice
During a speech on community culture, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of public art.
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 make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.
Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.
Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.
Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate beings; they were used to make slavery acceptable and to make black subjugation more palatable.
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