Antony Gormley

Visual Arts United Kingdom 1950 100 quotes

Contemporary sculptor of human figures exploring body and space.

Quotes by Antony Gormley

The environment shapes the artwork as much as the artist.

Interview 2017

We live in a world of echoes.

Book 2000

Form follows feeling.

Speech 2012

The gallery is a temple of the mind.

Catalog 1993

Every line drawn is a decision.

Interview 2005

The body politic is embodied in art.

Lecture 2019

Silence in sculpture speaks volumes.

Book 1989

I seek the poetry of the everyday.

Speech 2011

Materiality is the soul of sculpture.

Interview 1997

Art is a rebellion against entropy.

Catalog 2002

The viewer completes the work.

Lecture 2007

Presence through absence.

Book 1991

Sculpture invites touch, even when forbidden.

Interview 2015

Time erodes, but art endures.

Speech 2009

The cast body is a second skin.

Exhibition 1986

Imagination fills the negative space.

Book 2013

Art is the ultimate democracy.

Lecture 1995

Every figure stands alone, yet connected.

Interview 2001

The horizon is where earth meets sky in sculpture.

Catalog 2018

We are all works in progress.

Speech 2004