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But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Above
Because
Believe
Build
Homeland
I Believe
Memory
Only
Palace
Wanted
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But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Also
Between
Difference
First
Forget
Me
Motivated
Result
Should
Work
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I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Art
Being
Believe
Give
I Believe
Responsibility
Should
Take
Up
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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.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Any
Around
Bricks
Buildings
Built
Childhood
Clear
Did
Houses
Me
Played
Project
Reason
Ruined
Toys
Which
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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
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Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Arrive
Art
Going
Hope
Keep
Keep Going
Longing
Never
Will
You
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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
Art
Difficult
Make
Out
Really
Something
Sometimes
Understand
Very
Viewer
Work
Work Out
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Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Because
Purpose
Think
Trained
Upbringing
You
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Buying art is not understanding art.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Art
Buying
Understanding
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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
By The People
Each
Each One
Formed
History
Makes
People
Power
Those
Us
Who
Without
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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
Artist
Artists
Changes
Constantly
Different
History
Images
Speaks
Thinking
Unexpected
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I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Against
Am
End
Everything
I Am
Idea
Judgment
Paradise
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I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Believe
Empty
I Believe
I Believe In
Most
Spaces
Thing
Wonderful
Wonderful Thing
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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
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
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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If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Because
Depressed
Depressing
History
Life
Political
Political Life
Something
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Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Am
Art
Held
I Am
Illusion
Life
Nothingness
Together
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Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Artist
Content
Interesting
Part
Road
Takes
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Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
~ Anselm Kiefer
Beginning
Construct
Ideas
Me
New
New Ideas
Ruins
Symbols
You
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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
Artist
Beginning
Between
Connections
Cosmos
Does
Draws
Earth
End
Geological
He
History
Invisible
Manifest
Mankind
The History Of
Things
Threads
Ties
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