Quotes by Antony Gormley

About Antony Gormley:

Sir Antony Mark David Gormley is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010 and in São Paulo, in 2012.
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I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as ...

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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.

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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...

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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 ...

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It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.

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Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

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Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.

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Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

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

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I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

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The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

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My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.

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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.

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It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

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

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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.

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I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

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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, accordin...

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Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameAntony Gormley
  • DescriptionBritish sculptor
  • AliasesAntony Mark David Gormley
  • BornAugust 30, 1950
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionSculptor; Artist
  • WorksAngel Of The North; Event Horizon; Quantum Cloud
  • AwardsTurner Prize; Laurence Olivier Award For Outstanding Achievement In Dance; Officer Of The Order Of The British Empire; Praemium Imperiale