Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act.

Joseph Beuys

Quoted in Artforum

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Topic

Nature of art Housework and homemaking Art

Speaker

Joseph Beuys

Source

Artforum

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Artist

From

Germany Europe

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Citation

Beuys, Joseph. "An Interview with Joseph Beuys." Interviewed by Willoughby Sharp. Artforum, Dec. 1969.

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For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

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Language
English
Time
1960 1960s 20th century
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Citation

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The most perfect of all works of art is true political freedom.

Friedrich Schiller

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Topic
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Author

Friedrich Schiller
Medium
Treatise
Genre
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Language
German
Time
1794 1790s 18th century
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