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Gerhard Richter Quotes

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them Picture Quote #1

Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form Picture Quote #1

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb Picture Quote #1

I’m trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That’s all Picture Quote #1

Well, I don’t believe there are subjects that can’t be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can’t paint Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it’s a way to disguise myself Picture Quote #1

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With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control Picture Quote #1

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals Picture Quote #1

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it Picture Quote #1

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation Picture Quote #1

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy Picture Quote #1

Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I’m of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can’t do anything else. I’m still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human Picture Quote #1

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Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it Picture Quote #1

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that Picture Quote #1

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make Picture Quote #1

I go to the studio every day, but I don’t paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things Picture Quote #1

Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in this manufacture of truth Picture Quote #1

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world Picture Quote #1

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I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential Picture Quote #1

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate Picture Quote #1

Talk about painting: there’s no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can’t be said but are always the most important Picture Quote #1

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out Picture Quote #1

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea Picture Quote #1

How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread Picture Quote #1

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It’s that same quality I’ve been talking about. It’s neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can’t be planned and it probably can’t even be described. It’s just good Picture Quote #1

I don’t create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures Picture Quote #1

I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means loss of immediacy. Something is missing then, though; that is why I gave that up Picture Quote #1

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven’t done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper Picture Quote #1

Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic Picture Quote #1

The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way of informing, and in what it informs of, it is my source Picture Quote #1

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Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb (Gerhard Richter Quotes) I’m trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That’s all (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Well, I don’t believe there are subjects that can’t be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can’t paint (Gerhard Richter Quotes) I don’t believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it’s a way to disguise myself (Gerhard Richter Quotes) With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control (Gerhard Richter Quotes) When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals (Gerhard Richter Quotes) When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it (Gerhard Richter Quotes) My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation (Gerhard Richter Quotes) I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I’m of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can’t do anything else. I’m still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that (Gerhard Richter Quotes) I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make (Gerhard Richter Quotes) I go to the studio every day, but I don’t paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in this manufacture of truth (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world (Gerhard Richter Quotes) I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Talk about painting: there’s no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can’t be said but are always the most important (Gerhard Richter Quotes) A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out (Gerhard Richter Quotes) It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea (Gerhard Richter Quotes) How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread (Gerhard Richter Quotes) It’s that same quality I’ve been talking about. It’s neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can’t be planned and it probably can’t even be described. It’s just good (Gerhard Richter Quotes) I don’t create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures (Gerhard Richter Quotes) I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means loss of immediacy. Something is missing then, though; that is why I gave that up (Gerhard Richter Quotes) I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven’t done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper (Gerhard Richter Quotes) Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic (Gerhard Richter Quotes) The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way of informing, and in what it informs of, it is my source (Gerhard Richter Quotes)

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