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 allowartbeautiful share on social
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. Antony Gormley brushcomprehensionengage Change image and share on social
It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal. Antony Gormley artartworkcondition Change image and share on social
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 apprehensionbeingbody Change image and share on social
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 cctvchallengecity share on social
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 blanketbumcook Change image and share on social