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The Wise Virgins


Anselm Kiefer

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ANSELM KIEFER I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
ANSELM KIEFER I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place b...
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ANSELM KIEFER I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
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ANSELM KIEFER When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in German...
ANSELM KIEFER I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the st...
ANTON CORBIJN If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right th...
ANSELM FEURBAH The question Kiefer asks is: when do we have this heightened awareness of the scope of the universe?
ANIK FOURNIER Hi ladies, Hi Girls..., If you don't add more knowledge to what you already know, you may be a virgi...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Life's irony;Atimes the wise may have to act foolish in other to maintain the status of being wise.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The wise is not the one that has amassed $1b fortune,but the one that ardently works with the belief...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The wise person is one who can take $1 & turn it to $10
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Kiefer and Samantha and all the cast will come out and we will make it a very big gala event.
DON REYNOLDS Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
BIBLE Cucumbers are like virgins, they do not keep long
DUTCH PROVERB Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsi...
GEORGE GROSZ The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with,...
GEORGE GROSZ I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like...
GERHARD RICHTER Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated b...
GEORGE GROSZ Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to...
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KATHE KOLLWITZ I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful pa...
ALBERT OEHLEN There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.
SIGMAR POLKE People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in t...
SIGMAR POLKE I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
MARTIN KIPPENBERGER I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
KATHE KOLLWITZ I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on f...
GEORGE GROSZ We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I...
SIGMAR POLKE I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwo...
GERHARD RICHTER Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victo...
MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
GEORGE GROSZ When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there...
GERHARD RICHTER I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparen...
GEORG BASELITZ I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.
MARTIN KIPPENBERGER If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word ...
ALBERT OEHLEN I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I jus...
ALBERT OEHLEN Forty-year-old virgins everywhere are celebrating the No. 1 opening of their hero.
PAUL DERGARABEDIAN Money makes the wise more humble,but an opportunity for the fool to exhibit all his pride.
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OTTO DIX Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
EMIL NOLDE As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years after...
OTTO DIX You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
OTTO DIX I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reaso...
OTTO DIX All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is ...
OTTO DIX Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I'...
OTTO DIX I will either be famous or infamous.
OTTO DIX Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary...
OTTO DIX I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beaut...
OTTO DIX Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships,...
HANS HOFMANN When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, ev...
HANS HOFMANN Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
HANS HOFMANN An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of ...
HANS HOFMANN Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformat...
HANS HOFMANN It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
HANS HOFMANN Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
HANS HOFMANN Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
HANS HOFMANN Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
HANS HOFMANN Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of ...
HANS HOFMANN Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
HANS HOFMANN In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
HANS HOFMANN What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time tha...
HANS HOFMANN The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
HANS HOFMANN Through a painting we can see the whole world.
HANS HOFMANN What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statement...
HANS HAACKE A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and M...
HANS HAACKE A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations...
HANS HAACKE Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democr...
HANS HAACKE When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We...
HANS HAACKE There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Ka...
HANS HAACKE Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the...
HANS HAACKE As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for si...
ALBRECHT DURER It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terribl...
JOSEF ALBERS Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although ...
ALBRECHT DURER I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
MAX BECKMANN It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is co...
JOSEF ALBERS Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and s...
FRANZ MARC The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attri...
RUDOLF ARNHEIM Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the...
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GERHARD RICHTER On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in...
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JOSEF ALBERS Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an ap...
JOSEF ALBERS The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of rela...
HANS HOFMANN Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None ...
MARTIN KIPPENBERGER Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon th...
MAX LIEBERMANN If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
ALBRECHT DURER

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