I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or… — 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
