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  • I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

    "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.