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Anselm Kiefer quotes: I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

Anselm Kiefer quotes: Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

Anselm Kiefer quotes: Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

Anselm Kiefer quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

Anselm Kiefer quotes: Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

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

Anselm Kiefer quotes: But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

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

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

Anselm Kiefer quotes: When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

Anselm Kiefer quotes: I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

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

Anselm Kiefer quotes: Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

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

Anselm Kiefer quotes: Buying art is not understanding art.

Buying art is not understanding art.

Anselm Kiefer quotes: I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

Anselm Kiefer quotes: Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

Anselm Kiefer quotes: Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God

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 quotes: If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

Anselm Kiefer quotes: I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

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

Anselm Kiefer quotes: When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

Anselm Kiefer quotes: But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.

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

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

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