Anselm Kiefer Quotes

Anselm Kiefer — German Artist born on March 08, 1945,

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah... (wikipedia)

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

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

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.

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 Quotes

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