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

~Anselm Kiefer

Topics: By The People Each Each One Formed History Makes People Power Those Us Who Without

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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

Topics: Between Cathedral Earth Forest Grew Heaven Like Place Protected Room Up

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

~Anselm Kiefer

Topics: Artist Artists Changes Constantly Different History Images Speaks Thinking Unexpected

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

~Anselm Kiefer

Topics: Art Being Believe Give Responsibility Should Take Up I Believe

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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

Topics: About Anymore Anywhere Anywhere Else Became Else End Era Germany House Interested More Spoke Subject Taboo Than 1960S

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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

Topics: Been Born Chaos Fact In Fact Literal Might Sense State True Us Very

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I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

~Anselm Kiefer

Topics: After Age Amazing Behind Bicycle Communion Disappointed Early Early Age Expected First Got Had Instead Interested Life Over Something Spiritual Surprising Very Very Early Age

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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

Topics: Art Difficult Make Out Really Something Sometimes Understand Very Viewer Work Work Out

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Buying art is not understanding art.

~Anselm Kiefer

Topics: Art Buying Understanding

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

~Anselm Kiefer

Topics: Believe Empty Most Spaces Thing Wonderful Wonderful Thing I Believe I Believe In

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Artist

Born: March 8th, 1945

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