Antony Gormley

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art. ”

6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is. ”

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world. ”

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection. ”

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism. ”