Source: 1970's, I Am Searching For Field Character,' 1973/74, p. 48
“This is why we believe that a well-ordered idea of ecology and professionalism can stem only from art – art in the sense of the sole, revolutionary force, capable of transforming the earth, humanity, the social order etc.... Art is, then, a genuinely human medium for revolutionary change in the sense of completing the transformation from a sick world to a healthy one. In my opinion only art is capable of doing it.”
1980's
Source: Times Thermic Machine, 1982
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Maciunas (1963), Fluxus Manifesto, copies of which were thrown into the audience at the Festum Fluxorum Fluxus, Düsseldorf, February 1963.
Source: Computer Programming as an Art (1974), p. 669 [italics in source]
Gustav Metzger: 'Destroy, and you create', 2012
“Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.”
As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 137
Source: 1940s, Beyond the Aesthetics' (1946), pp. 38-39