Joseph Beuys Artist Quotes & Sayings

Every human being is an artist — Joseph Beuys

What interested me the most was that when I [traveled to Europe] I knew what Joseph Beuys was doing, he knew what I was doing, and we both, we just started to talk. How did I know what Daniel Buren was doing, and to an extent, he knew exactly what I was doing? How did everybody know? It's an interesting thing. I'm still fascinated by it because, why is it now, with the Internet and everything else, you get whole groups of artists who have chosen to be regional? They really are only with the people they went to school with. — Lawrence Weiner

Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself. — Joseph Beuys

Everyone is an artist. — Joseph Beuys

Every man is an artist. — Joseph Beuys

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives — Joseph Beuys