"Not content, but the road the artist takes,……" — Anselm Kiefer

"Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part."

— Anselm Kiefer

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28 Quotes by Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why…
As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful…
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in…
I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting…
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is…
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be…
Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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