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Antony Gormley

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 into the matrix of street life.

— Antony Gormley life

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

— Antony Gormley work

'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 art

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.

— Antony Gormley art

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 people

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

— Antony Gormley business

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

— Antony Gormley sun

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

— Antony Gormley art

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.

— Antony Gormley art

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 adventure

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, according to the movement of the sun.

— Antony Gormley life

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 people

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.

— Antony Gormley books

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 life

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 language

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

— Antony Gormley change

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

— Antony Gormley art

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

— Antony Gormley education

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 work

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 time

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 work

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 ourselves.

— Antony Gormley politics

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.

— Antony Gormley man

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 a place.

— Antony Gormley time

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 hate

I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. Its 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 into the matrix of street life.

— Antony Gormley life

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