Anselm Kiefer Art Quotations

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

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.

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 is difficult. Its not entertainment.

Buying art is not understanding art.

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God

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.