“I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of human kind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context… I can see such a use for the future as representing the really progressive character of the idea of understanding art when it is related to the life of humankind within the social body in the future.”

— Joseph Beuys

Quote of Beuys, in Studio International Vol. 195, (1981), p. 46
1980's

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German visual artist 1921–1986

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