Antony Gormley Quotes

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

The value of art is in the observer.

Music inspires me.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.