Antony Gormley Quotes

Art is not meant to change the world.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level, there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to perform a particular function.

As an artist, I often wonder what my purpose is or why I do what I do.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, of course, the function of the artist.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have something to say, that they want to share something important, express something important.