Calvinistic Quotes by Anselm Kiefer

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult…

— Anselm Kiefer

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of…

— Anselm Kiefer

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

— Anselm Kiefer

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

— Anselm Kiefer

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I…

— Anselm Kiefer

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

— Anselm Kiefer

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

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

— Anselm Kiefer

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

— Anselm Kiefer

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

— Anselm Kiefer

I am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and always will…

— Anselm Kiefer

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when…

— Anselm Kiefer

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God

— Anselm Kiefer

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

— Anselm Kiefer

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

— Anselm Kiefer