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.
From Anselm Kiefer
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
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.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
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