Klaus Dermutz: Interviewer
Quotes
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Interviewer : If the horror of the world can be expressed by artists, then that is an achievement... isn't it?
Anselm Kiefer : The word 'achievement' is very difficult. As horrible as the subject is - art becomes beauty. That's a curse; it all becomes beauty. But, it doesn't mean you have found the sense of the world... you have constructed a sense of the world. You could be seduced to think that art could redeem the world... it cannot.
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Interviewer : Do you enjoy the process of making?
Anselm Kiefer : Umm... it's difficult. And sometimes it's a failure. Because, at any state of a painting, you have one-hundred possibilities... and you have to chose one. It's a war in your head, you know? And when I look two or three days later - I think it's shit. It happens, you know? Because you are in a certain situation, you think - 'Oh, now I got something.' And then you have to wait, to calm down. And sometimes the contrary happens too. You think 'Ohhh, I worked so much and now it's damaged. It's not good.' And then later you see, oh - you found a new thing.
