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
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. — 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
In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these… — 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
I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw… — 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
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
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand… — 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
Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.… — 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
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
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
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
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.… — 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
I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I… — 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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
