--- title: "13 Different Quotes By Gerhard Richter" description: "13 Different quotes by Gerhard Richter. Plus more from Gerhard Richter and more Different sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/795/gerhard-richter-2249_believe_i-believe-in-painting-and-i-believe-in-e_1913142.jpg" --- > [I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-believe-in-painting-and-i-believe-in-eating-too-what-can-we-do-we/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/795/gerhard-richter-2249_believe_i-believe-in-painting-and-i-believe-in-e_1913142.jpg) > [The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/the-atlas-belongs-to-the-lenbachhaus-in-munich-it-s-long-since-ceased/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78d/gerhard-richter-2249_art_the-atlas-belongs-to-the-lenbachhaus-in_1735211.jpg) > [I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-don-t-believe-in-the-reality-of-painting-so-i-use-different-styles/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bca/gerhard-richter-2249_believe_i-don-t-believe-in-the-reality-of-painti_2083159.jpg) > [A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/a-lot-of-different-things-had-to-come-together-over-the-years/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d57/gerhard-richter-2249_art_a-lot-of-different-things-had-to-come-to_2761010.jpg) > [Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/above-all-it-s-never-blind-chance-it-s-a-chance-that-is-always/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/786/gerhard-richter-2249_art_above-all-it-s-never-blind-chance-it-s-a_532277.jpg) > [The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/the-paint-for-the-grey-paintings-was-mixed-beforehand-and-then/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e69/gerhard-richter-2249_art_the-paint-for-the-grey-paintings-was-mix_1075796.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) > [Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/maybe-we-didn-t-even-have-a-chance-the-message-of-american-pop-art/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baf/gerhard-richter-2249_art_maybe-we-didn-t-even-have-a-chance-the-m_971894.jpg) > [Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/painting-is-my-profession-because-it-has-always-been-the-thing-that/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bd/gerhard-richter-2249_age_painting-is-my-profession-because-it-has_2455679.jpg) > [I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-first-came-up-with-the-idea-for-the-colour-chart-pictures-back-in/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9a/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-first-came-up-with-the-idea-for-the-co_2502274.jpg) > [I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-wanted-to-say-something-different-the-pictures-are-also-a-leave/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60e/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-wanted-to-say-something-different-the_522149.jpg) > [If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/if-while-i-m-painting-i-distort-or-destroy-a-motif-it-is-not-a/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cab/gerhard-richter-2249_art_if-while-i-m-painting-i-distort-or-destr_3122063.jpg) > [But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/but-i-have-a-problem-with-the-term-light-i-never-in-my-life-knew-what/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/gerhard-richter-2249_be-good_but-i-have-a-problem-with-the-term-light_508064.jpg) ## Other authors on Different ## 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/different/gerhard-richter/#itemlist", "name": "13 Different Quotes By Gerhard Richter", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint, we have to live. Of course, there are different ways to survive. 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I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gerhard Richter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/painting-is-my-profession-because-it-has-always-been-the-thing-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bd/gerhard-richter-2249_age_painting-is-my-profession-because-it-has_2455679.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bd/gerhard-richter-2249_age_painting-is-my-profession-because-it-has_2455679.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bd/gerhard-richter-2249_age_painting-is-my-profession-because-it-has_2455679.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. 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