Anselm Kiefer Quotes

"But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result."
- Anselm Kiefer
(Related: Work, Difference, First, Forget, Result)

"I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art."
- Anselm Kiefer
(Related: Art, Being, Responsibility)

"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."
- Anselm Kiefer
(Related: Childhood, Houses, Project, Reason)

"When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else."
- Anselm Kiefer
(Related: End, Germany)