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Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God
Anselm Kiefer
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I am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and always will be. I do not believe that we are in the center of the world. It is possible that there are gods who do not relate to human. As an artist, I believe that it is possible to depict these forces.
Anselm Kiefer
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Salvador Dali
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When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
Anselm Kiefer
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If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
Anselm Kiefer
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Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
Anselm Kiefer
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As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.
Anselm Kiefer
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I believe in empty spaces they're the most wonderful thing.
Anselm Kiefer
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When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
Anselm Kiefer
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
Ralph Steadman
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I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.
Anselm Kiefer
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But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Anselm Kiefer
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I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.
Maurice Sendak
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To be interesting, one has to provoke.
Salvador Dali
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Drawing and composition are the same thing.
John French Sloan
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Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
Philip Guston
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I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.
Maira Kalman
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Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it
Matthew Barney
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It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.
Brian Selznick
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The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.
John French Sloan
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Where did the love come from? What was it made of?
Cornelia Funke
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An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.
Uri Shulevitz
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The one thing that matters is the effort.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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