Top 43 Quotes About Anselm Kiefer
#1. I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.
Anton Corbijn
#2. My biggest hero when I was a kid was Will Smith. I used to watch 'Fresh Prince,' and I was a huge fan of his albums. I bought all of his albums when I was a kid. Now, he is the biggest movie star in the world.
Jesse McCartney
#4. History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Anselm Kiefer
#5. She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.
Denis Johnson
#6. But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
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#7. When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.
Temple Grandin
#8. 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.
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#9. Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
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#10. 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.
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#11. Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
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#13. Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God
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#14. Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.
Tom Hodgkinson
#15. If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
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#16. 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.
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#17. A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets
Nash Buckingham
#18. I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.
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#20. But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.
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#21. People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses, setbacks, and unexpected occurrences. Calamitous drops do not scare them out of the game.
Peter Lynch
#22. I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#23. As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.
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#24. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.
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#25. Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.
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#26. History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
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#27. Your decisions are the A.I.R. (Action, Impact, and Result) or the breath of life you take each day to live. Each decision is made from your action, the impact of the action, and the results of that action.
Thomas Narofsky
#28. One should not seek ugliness in this world. There is no lack of it. You will find it soon enough, or it will find you." Taty
Robert Jackson Bennett
#29. One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.
Robert Dallek
#30. I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
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#33. My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.
Laurie Anderson
#34. 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.
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#35. I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven,
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#36. I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
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#37. Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
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#38. In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold, and that all this wealth of restless jewels was but a waste of fire.
Olaf Stapledon
#39. I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
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#40. I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
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#41. When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
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#42. Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
Denis Diderot
#43. The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.
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