Antony Gormley Quotes about Art

Antony Gormley is a famous British sculptor and Installation artist. He is best known for his outdoor sculptures and pixelated human figures. Famous Antony Gormley artworks include “Small Stem Model”, “Subject III”, “Frame II”, “Field”, “Angel of the North”, “Quantum Cloud”, “Event Horizon”, “Exposure”, “Bed”, “Brick Man”, “Havmannen”, “LIMN II” and “Out of This World”.

Mini biography: Born Antony Mark David Gormley on the 30th of August, 1950 in London, England in the United Kingdom of Great Britain. His mother was German and his father of Irish descent. Gormley married his studio assistant and artist Vicken Parsons in 1980 and they have three children together.

List of Famous Antony Gormley Art Quotes

I think that we all are very visually informed these days. Maybe classical education within the visual arts has now been replaced by a multiplicity of visual images that come through computers and advertising and all sorts of sources. Antony Gormley

I am hoping that the work will not so much occupy as infect the space, calling upon its memories of other gatherings that once happened, and perhaps premonitions of others that have not yet happened. Antony Gormley

They said it was immoral to take art when what was needed was food. That’s a very limited view of what is necessary for the spirit. Antony Gormley

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job. The press are the most cynical and re-enforce an outdated attitude that is not actually the way people think. People enjoy challenges, find visual art exciting and do not think all artists are trying to pull a fast one. Antony Gormley

We are all conscious in this globalized world that in some way human beings are affecting natural systems that have never been affected by one species.. We have the ability to foul the nest for ourselves and every other species, or do something about it. Antony Gormley

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. Art is not necessarily good for you or about communicating “good things”. Antony Gormley

I want to start where language ends. Antony Gormley

I feel somewhat uncomfortable describing my work because I want it to be free to be experienced freely. At the same time it is important that it comes from somewhere very concrete: the living moment of a living body experiencing its own existence. Antony Gormley

I think it is a communication, but it is a meeting of two lives. It’s a meeting of the expressiveness of me, the artist, and the expressiveness of you, the viewer. And for me the charge comes from that confrontation. Antony Gormley

The whole point of the Angel is that it sits on a mound that it shares with visitors, which was made from the destroyed pithead buildings of the Lower Tyne colliery.’ The mound says: ‘You know, the Thatcher years annihilated all the collective memory of a 200-year dialogue between coal, iron and engineering.’ I wanted it to be a tribute to that history of pretty hellish working underground. Antony Gormley

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. Antony Gormley

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