--- title: "10 Art is Quotes By Gerhard Richter" description: "10 Art is quotes by Gerhard Richter. Plus more from Gerhard Richter and more Art is sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/481/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-the-highest-form-of-hope-2246695_2246695.jpg" --- > [Art is the highest form of hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-is-the-highest-form-of-hope/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/481/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-the-highest-form-of-hope-2246695_2246695.jpg) > [Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-is-the-ideal-medium-for-making-contact-with-the-transcendental-or/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/304/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-the-ideal-medium-for-making-conta_1817771.jpg) > [Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-is-always-to-a-large-extent-about-need-despair-and-hopelessness/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fe/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-always-to-a-large-extent-about-ne_1591486.jpg) > [Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/picturing-things-taking-a-view-is-what-makes-us-human-art-is-making/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/gerhard-richter-2249_art_picturing-things-taking-a-view-is-what-m_1733220.jpg) > [I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-don-t-how-i-can-describe-the-quality-that-is-only-found-in-art-be/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a2/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-don-t-how-i-can-describe-the-quality-t_3121591.jpg) > [I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-would-like-to-try-to-understand-what-is-we-know-very-little-and-i/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff1/gerhard-richter-2249_analogies_i-would-like-to-try-to-understand-what-i_2388275.jpg) > [Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-is-the-pure-realization-of-religious-feeling-capacity-for-faith/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97d/gerhard-richter-2249_ability_art-is-the-pure-realization-of-religious_1148149.jpg) > [Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/almost-every-work-of-art-is-an-analogy-when-i-make-a-representation/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/846/gerhard-richter-2249_aesthetic_almost-every-work-of-art-is-an-analogy-w_2804803.jpg) > [Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-is-not-a-substitute-religion-it-is-a-religion-in-the-true-sense/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac3/gerhard-richter-2249_adequate_art-is-not-a-substitute-religion-it-is-a_624487.jpg) > [A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/a-work-of-art-is-itself-an-object-first-of-all-and-so-manipulation-is/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0d/gerhard-richter-2249_art_a-work-of-art-is-itself-an-object-first_77845.jpg) ## Other authors on Art is ## More by Gerhard Richter > [Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-shows-us-how-to-see-things-that-are-constructive-and-good-and-to/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/they-are-specific-places-i-have-discovered-here-and-there-when-i-am/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/to-me-grey-is-the-welcome-and-only-possible-equivalent-for/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/now-that-we-do-not-have-priests-and-philosophers-any-more-artists-are/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/yes-we-were-amazed-when-that-happened-it-was-a-real-joke-to-us-konrad/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/a-work-of-art-is-itself-an-object-first-of-all-and-so-manipulation-is/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/the-photograph-is-the-only-picture-that-can-truly-convey-information/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/perhaps-the-choice-is-a-negative-one-in-that-i-was-trying-to-avoid/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/gray-is-the-color-the-most-important-of-all-absent-of-opinion-nothing/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [All photographs are far more important than any painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/all-photographs-are-far-more-important-than-any-painting/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/you-can-compare-it-to-dreams-you-have-a-very-specific-and-individual/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/what-attracted-me-about-my-mirrors-was-the-idea-of-having-nothing/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/but-it-is-also-untrue-that-i-have-nothing-specific-in-mind-as-with-my/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/my-landscapes-are-not-only-beautiful-or-nostalgic-with-a-romantic-or/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) > [I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-have-always-been-structured-what-has-changed-is-the-proportions-now/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art-is/gerhard-richter/#itemlist", "name": "10 Art is Quotes By Gerhard Richter", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Art is the highest form of hope.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gerhard Richter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-is-the-highest-form-of-hope/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/481/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-the-highest-form-of-hope-2246695_2246695.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/481/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-the-highest-form-of-hope-2246695_2246695.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/481/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-the-highest-form-of-hope-2246695_2246695.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Art is the highest form of hope.” — Gerhard Richter", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gerhard Richter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-is-the-ideal-medium-for-making-contact-with-the-transcendental-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/304/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-the-ideal-medium-for-making-conta_1817771.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/304/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-the-ideal-medium-for-making-conta_1817771.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/304/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-the-ideal-medium-for-making-conta_1817771.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.” — Gerhard Richter", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gerhard Richter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/art-is-always-to-a-large-extent-about-need-despair-and-hopelessness/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fe/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-always-to-a-large-extent-about-ne_1591486.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fe/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-always-to-a-large-extent-about-ne_1591486.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fe/gerhard-richter-2249_art_art-is-always-to-a-large-extent-about-ne_1591486.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.” — Gerhard Richter", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. 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But I needed the greater objectivity of the photograph in order to correct my own way of seeing: for instance, if I draw an object from nature, I start to stylize and to change it in accordance with my personal vision and my training. But if I paint from a photograph, I can forget all the criteria that I get from these sources. I can paint against my will, as it were. 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