Anselm Kiefer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.”

“Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.”

“Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.”

“History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.”

“The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.”

“I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.”

“I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.”

“But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.”

“Buying art is not understanding art.”

“I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.”