The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, … - Anselm Kiefer

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Everyone is a Taoist at heart. Everyone would like to follow nature, but we don't have enough tools yet to put the philosophy into practice. . . as soon as someone gets sick, they fight the illness, rather than trying to find out the meaning or purpose behind it.

Anselm Kiefer

The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge. . I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.

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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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I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

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Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

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

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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.

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