Gerhard Richter

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

To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like…

— Gerhard Richter

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

What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung…

— Gerhard Richter

I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou…

— Gerhard Richter

These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even…

— Gerhard Richter

As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the…

— Gerhard Richter

A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out…

— Gerhard Richter

There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so…

— Gerhard Richter

Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible…

— Gerhard Richter

I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and…

— Gerhard Richter

Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I…

— Gerhard Richter

The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state,…

— Gerhard Richter

Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't…

— Gerhard Richter

It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or…

— Gerhard Richter

My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By…

— Gerhard Richter