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.

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

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

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.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.