Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kieferis a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth8 March 1945
CountryGermany
artist interesting
Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.
art artist giving
When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.
art giving people
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 see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.
believe thinking artist
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 be. I do not believe that we are in the center of the world. It is possible that there are gods who do not relate to human. As an artist, I believe that it is possible to depict these forces.
art work-out sometimes
Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
art space wells
Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God
art giving-up believe
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
art understanding buying
Buying art is not understanding art.
art together life-is
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
thinking artist different
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
art entertainment difficult
Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.
art skills technique
As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.
art longing art-is
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
artist ties beginnings-and-ends
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.