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As a child I had no toys our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.
Anselm Kiefer
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Anselm Kiefer
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 8
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I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.
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Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
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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.
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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.
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Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.
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The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.
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I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.
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Buying art is not understanding art.
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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.
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When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
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Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
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History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
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I believe in empty spaces they're the most wonderful thing.
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I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
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Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
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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
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