I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way. — 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
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 believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was… — 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
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 in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint,… — 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
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
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
