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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.

Anselm Kiefer

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Anselm Kiefer
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 8
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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 difficult. Its not entertainment.
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Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.
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When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.
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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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I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.
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Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
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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.
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Buying art is not understanding art.
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Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
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I believe in empty spaces they're the most wonderful thing.
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History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
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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 might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
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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.
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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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I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.
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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.
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Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.
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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.
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