Anselm Kiefer

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

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

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

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.