--- title: "11 Courses Quotes By Gerhard Richter" description: "11 Courses quotes by Gerhard Richter. Plus more from Gerhard Richter and more Courses sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58d/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-remember-that-i-felt-i-had-to-avoid-al_265622.jpg" --- > [I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-remember-that-i-felt-i-had-to-avoid-all-these-sensational-photos/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58d/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-remember-that-i-felt-i-had-to-avoid-al_265622.jpg) > [And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/and-then-the-work-bears-a-strong-sense-of-leave-taking-for-me/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cc/gerhard-richter-2249_1960s_and-then-the-work-bears-a-strong-sense-o_3087603.jpg) > [Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/of-course-pictures-of-objects-also-have-this-transcendental-side-to/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/324/gerhard-richter-2249_art_of-course-pictures-of-objects-also-have_1430154.jpg) > [You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a07/gerhard-richter-2249_accepting_you-can-compare-it-to-dreams-you-have-a_183016.jpg) > [There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/there-was-no-special-event-that-made-me-decide-i-had-collected-some/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fb/gerhard-richter-2249_art_there-was-no-special-event-that-made-me_997739.jpg) > [As a matter of fact, it was only through the dealer Fred Jahn that I succeeded in overcoming my reservation about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/as-a-matter-of-fact-it-was-only-through-the-dealer-fred-jahn-that-i/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c1/gerhard-richter-2249_conjunctions_as-a-matter-of-fact-it-was-only-through_1525411.jpg) > [The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/the-grey-is-certainly-inspired-by-the-photo-paintings-and-of-course/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a92/gerhard-richter-2249_art_the-grey-is-certainly-inspired-by-the-ph_1373032.jpg) > [I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-m-never-really-sure-what-that-word-means-but-however-inaccurately-i/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67d/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-m-never-really-sure-what-that-word-mea_1808475.jpg) > [Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/pictures-are-the-idea-in-visual-or-pictorial-form-and-the-idea-has-to/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90e/gerhard-richter-2249_art_pictures-are-the-idea-in-visual-or-picto_2246037.jpg) > [Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/of-course-i-constantly-despair-at-my-own-incapacity-at-the/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ee/gerhard-richter-2249_accomplishing-anythi_of-course-i-constantly-despair-at-my-own_2730722.jpg) > [I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-began-in-1976-with-small-abstract-paintings-that-allowed-me-to-do/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36a/gerhard-richter-2249_abstract_i-began-in-1976-with-small-abstract-pain_463855.jpg) ## Other authors on Courses ## 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/courses/gerhard-richter/#itemlist", "name": "11 Courses Quotes By Gerhard Richter", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. 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However, none of this means that pictures function as illustrations of an idea: ultimately, they are the idea. Nor is the verbal formulation of the idea a translation of the visual: it simply bears a certain resemblance to the meaning of the idea. 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But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. 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