Firsts Quotes by Gerhard Richter

9 Firsts quotes by Gerhard Richter

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If you appreciate nuanced, artistic insight, Gerhard Richter’s nine short reflections on first experiences blend visual imagination with thoughtful observation. His voice makes each new step feel like a subtle brushstroke of meaning.

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To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

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The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only…

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I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in…

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Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional…

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The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In…

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When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not…

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Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or…

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A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed…

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The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before…

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To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and…

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Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

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The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.…

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Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues…

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Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

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All photographs are far more important than any painting.

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You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate…

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What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without…

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But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in…

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My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...

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I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.

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