Wolf Vostell Quotes

Wolf Vostell was a German painter and sculptor, considered one of the early adopters of video art and installation art and pioneer of Happenings and Fluxus. Techniques such as blurring and Dé-coll/age are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete and the use of television sets in his works. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. October 1932 – 3. April 1998
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Famous Wolf Vostell Quotes

“Art is Life, Life is Art.”

Wolf Vostell (1961), cited in: Cultures, Vol. 5. (1978), p. 142
Original: Kunst ist Leben, Leben ist Kunst.

“Events are weapons for politicization of art.”

Cited in: Hans Heinz Holz (1972). Vom Kunstwerk zur Ware: Studien zur Funktion des ästhetischen Gegenstandes im Spätkapitalismus. p. 204
Original: Ereignisse sind Waffen zur Politisierung der Kunst.

“I declare peace the greatest work of art.”

Wolf Vostell (1980) Wolf Vostell : de-collagen; Verwischungen. p. 23
Original: Ich erkläre den Frieden zum größten Kunstwerk.

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