EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experiences first-hand – learns to determine the other positions in the TOTAL ART WORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER. Self-determination and participation in the cultural sphere (freedom); in the structuring of laws (democracy); and in the sphere of economics (socialism). Self-administration and decentralization (three-fold structures) occurs: FREE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM.

Joseph Beuys, 'I Am Searching for Field Character' in Art In Theory, 1900-2000, 2nd ed. (Blackwell Publishing, 2003) pp. 929-930