Art Quote by Anselm Kiefer Download Open image “Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.” — Anselm Kiefer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art I am Illusion Life Life is Nothingness Together
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless, — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or forces, the existential crisis by which art—great art—is fully experienced. There is a fluidity between art and life, then, in the same way that there is, in the best lives, a fluidity between mind and matter, self and… — Christian Wiman Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image