I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art. Anselm Kiefer Read Quote
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist’s thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images. Anselm Kiefer Read Quote
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. Anselm Kiefer Read Quote
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. Anselm Kiefer Read Quote
If I do something that depresses, it’s not because I’m depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. Anselm Kiefer Read Quote
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. Anselm Kiefer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
