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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

Antony Gormley Life Art Dance

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

Antony Gormley Art Future Politics

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

Antony Gormley Body Way Say

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

Antony Gormley Window Way Opening

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

Antony Gormley Time Architecture Great

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

Antony Gormley Learning Experience Value

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

Antony Gormley People Want Barn

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.

~ Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley Best Cooking Me

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

Antony Gormley Business Art Blame

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

Antony Gormley Time Child Me

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

Antony Gormley Life Change Beautiful

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

~ Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley I Am Me Educated
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