Joseph Beuys Quotes

Every man is an artist.

Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you’re parents want you to do, or what that beautiful girl or guy thinks you should be doing. Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go. Go out there and make the world more beautiful. I know you can.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic.

It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.

All art is based on non-conformity.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

There's no rule that says you have to make records constantly, like clockwork, to continue being who you are.