Antony Gormley - I just want my work to be part of the...

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

Biography

Author Profession: Artist

Nationality: British

Born: August 30, 1950

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Damien Hirst, Andy Goldsworthy, Mini Grey, Lucian Freud, Bridget Riley, Howard Hodgkin, Cecily Brown, Alfred Sisley

Topics

Elemental, Just, Part, Want, Work, World

Quotes to Explore

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Learning Experience You Intelligence

How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

You Way Silent Living

I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

Inspirational Life Art Dance

I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun.

Life Light Sun Great

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Change Art Job Doing

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

People Looking Think Way

Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.

Politics Future Art Failure

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

Me Time Devil Imagination

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

Business Talking Depressing

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Art Think Say Something

Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.

Earth Single Rock Australia

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

Think Way Body Things

The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.

Work Sea Land Lead

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

History People Want Excited

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