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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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?

Antony Gormley

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Antony Gormley

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

Antony Gormley

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.

Antony Gormley

I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

Antony Gormley

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.

Antony Gormley

Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

Antony Gormley

'6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.

Antony Gormley

I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.

Antony Gormley

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

Antony Gormley

I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I've also always wanted to look at the wood carvings along the Sepik River in New Guinea.

Antony Gormley

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.

Antony Gormley

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

Antony Gormley

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.

Antony Gormley

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

Antony Gormley

It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.

Antony Gormley

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