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I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
— Anselm Kiefer
Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
— Anselm Kiefer
Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.
— Anselm Kiefer
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.
— Anselm Kiefer
If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.
— Roger Ballen
I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
— Anselm Kiefer
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
— Anselm Kiefer
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
— Anselm Kiefer
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
— Anselm Kiefer
When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
— Anselm Kiefer
The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.
— Louis Pasteur
Buying art is not understanding art.
— Anselm Kiefer
I'm just so glad that girl power is working in Hollywood.
— Vivica A. Fox
But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.
— Anselm Kiefer
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
— Anselm Kiefer
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
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
— Anselm Kiefer