JOSEPH BEUYS and LAMA SOGYAL RINPOCHE

Talk about a possible co-operation with THE DALAI LAMA

Paris, January 29, 1982

I do not call this the period of modern art.. since so-called modern art is only a synonym for the attempt of the Western world's soul to get free and independent of every predetermination by political pressure.. But for me this is not enough.. this modern art.. It has to come to a wider understanding of art, which could be related to every person's doing.. So, the formula is: 'Everybody is an artist..' Every human work has to be seen as a kind of art.. For me only this idea could overcome this fragmentation that we have now.. There is the world of art.. there is the economics.. there are the legal problems.. or, the so-called democratic problems.. there are the cultural problems, with the school systems, the university systems.. the education.. To see the world principally as a unity with the idea of creativity and ability of the people.. it means their spiritual constellation with all their real creative powers, thought powers, soul powers, will powers, ethical powers, and all the further and higher developed bodies.. This is a necessity.. to overcome this completely distorted and only additional nothingness.. Nobody knows any more what one is working for.. where the goal is.. how to develop and unfold the powers of the world.. So, I see that the values of the West try to split away from the spiritual grounds.. in order to come to a very strong and systematic analysis of the material condition only.. So, the man in the West is bound to material powers..

 

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