5001 quotes by artists for you to enjoy

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

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I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all. Anselm Kiefer

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

Else Taboo About More No-One Spoke House Became Era Subject End Germany Than Anymore Anywhere Anywhere Else Interested

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. Anselm Kiefer

Art Entertainment Difficult

But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result. Anselm Kiefer

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Buying art is not understanding art. Anselm Kiefer

Art Understanding Buying

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part. Anselm Kiefer

Part Road Takes Content Artist Interesting

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images. Anselm Kiefer

History Thinking Changes Constantly Unexpected Artist Artists Different Speaks Images

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. Antoni Tapies

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If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it. Antoni Tapies

Change People World Change The World Way Look Least Want

I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun. Antony Gormley

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job. Antony Gormley

Art Change Job Change Things Immediately Would Acceptable Doing Things

Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves. Antony Gormley

Politics Future Art Failure Space Become Design Ourselves About Open Open Space Open Spaces Becomes Due Question Questions Viable Where Spaces Process Which Ask Beliefs Fundamental Fundamental Questions Last Core

It is a depressing business talking to journalist. Antony Gormley

Business Journalist Talking Depressing

Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust. Antony Gormley

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies. Antony Gormley

Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake. Antony Gormley

Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room. Antony Gormley

I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection. Antony Gormley

Work Reflection Make Encouraging Reflective Trying

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world. Antony Gormley

Work World Part Just Want Elemental

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern. Antony Gormley

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