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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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Anselm Kiefer
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: March 8
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Graphic Artist
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Anselm Keifer
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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 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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Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
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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 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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I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
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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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I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.
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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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