Antony Gormley Quotes

Art is an experience, not an object.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Music inspires me.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Art is all a matter of personality.

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.