39 Quotes by Anselm Kiefer

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.