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Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley
British Artist
Born: Aug 30, 1950
Art Become Space Think Work You
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I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination. Antony Gormley
Time Me Grace Confused Devil Half Imagination State Spend About Potent Had Ideas Lot Very Child Did Anybody Whether Mean
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 Great Dark Light Dark Side Energy Think Side Our Earth Sun Could Equalizer Were Provide According Celebrated Movement Planet Act Belt
Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job. Antony Gormley
Art Change Job Change Things Immediately Would Acceptable Doing Things
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 Future Art Failure Space Become Design Ourselves About Open Open Space Open Spaces Becomes Due Question Questions Viable Where Spaces Process Which Ask Beliefs Fundamental Fundamental Questions Last Core
It is a depressing business talking to journalist. Antony Gormley
Business Journalist Talking Depressing
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
Old Single Earth Bits Ancient Lies Crust Most Piece Rock Surface Still Intact Covered Years Western Australia Granite Billion Largest
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
Think Related Apprehension Way Scale About Proportion Proportions Human Human Beings Mean Us Body Beings Things
I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies. Antony Gormley
Art Business Blame Before Think Everybody Relatively Structures Attached Along Like Because Came Going Dutch Stable Movies Who Whole Starting
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
Joy Too Much Looking Judgment Own Think Too Easy Critics See Contemplating Sake Very Forget Maybe Much Professional Whole Compare Actually
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
Space Become Closed Other Way Machines Cities Window Opening Like Provide Same Controlled Where Which Places Room Means Works Challenged Imaginative
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
Work Wonderful Light Weather Wind Changing Framing Make Context Exist Conditions Label Wonderful Thing Either Thing
I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection. Antony Gormley
Work Reflection Make Encouraging Reflective Trying
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
Space Whatever Way Say Would Object Simply Improved Body Whole Thing
I just want my work to be part of the elemental world. Antony Gormley
Work World Part Just Want Elemental
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 Communicate Past Other Liberated Alive Has-Been Feels Like Still Mixed Been Up Modern Duties In The Past Which Central Means Function Illustrative
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
You Communicate Speak Better Matter Language Draw Pictures Still Same Anyone Anything Then Things

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