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History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Anselm Kiefer
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Anselm Kiefer
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 8
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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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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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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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Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
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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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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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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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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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But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Anselm Kiefer
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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What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
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I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
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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
Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.
Anselm Kiefer
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
Anselm Kiefer
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
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Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.
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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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I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.
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