“What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible t...” — Anselm Kiefer Quote

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.

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

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

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

The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker.

All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I'm human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don't see the background.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas.