Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In 1981, I think, for the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf. Before that I designed a mirror room for Kasper König's Westkunst show, but… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
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… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'... — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
