Top 23 Quotes by Anselm Kiefer

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.