"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."

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Source : "Anselm Kiefer's tragic works carry traces of humor" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. January 22, 2012.

Anselm Kiefer

#Artist Quotes #Ties Quotes #Beginnings And Ends Quotes

“As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you create problems for yourself and you solve them and you create things that weren't there before. That's awfully simplified, but that's how it is.”

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“Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.”
“I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.”
“President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.”
“I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.”
“We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.”
“Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.”
“With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.”

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