After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

Every human being is an artist

Art for me is the science of freedom.

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

Happiness is a dream but as we know dreams coming true

Pray ceaselessly.

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

I love baseball - Moneyball was my favorite book when I was 13.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

If Diane Modahl was 40 times over the testosterone limit she'd have a deep voice and we'd all be calling her Barry White.