--- title: "15 I can Quotes By Gerhard Richter" description: "15 I can quotes by Gerhard Richter. Plus more from Gerhard Richter and more I can sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f00/gerhard-richter-2249_artist_i-don-t-think-i-can-do-this-painting-und_297429.jpg" --- > [I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-don-t-think-i-can-do-this-painting-under-observation-it-s-the-worst/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f00/gerhard-richter-2249_artist_i-don-t-think-i-can-do-this-painting-und_297429.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'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-m-trying-to-paint-a-picture-of-what-i-have-seen-and-what-moved-me/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d63/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-m-trying-to-paint-a-picture-of-what-i_2001392.jpg) > [When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/when-i-begin-theoretically-and-practically-i-can-smear-anything-i/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ad/gerhard-richter-2249_anything_when-i-begin-theoretically-and-practical_2498378.jpg) > [Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/painting-pictures-is-simply-the-official-the-daily-work-the/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd5/gerhard-richter-2249_cases_painting-pictures-is-simply-the-official_1462268.jpg) > [To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62f/gerhard-richter-2249_absence_to-me-grey-is-the-welcome-and-only-possi_41737.jpg) > [This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/this-superficial-blurring-has-something-to-do-with-the-incapacity-i/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c30/gerhard-richter-2249_art_this-superficial-blurring-has-something_565577.jpg) > [I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-believe-that-you-always-have-to-believe-it-s-the-only-way-after-all/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-believe-that-you-always-have-to-believ_545264.jpg) > [Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/nature-structure-there-is-no-more-to-say-in-my-pictures-i-reduce-to/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/gerhard-richter-2249_art_nature-structure-there-is-no-more-to-say_2748435.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) > [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) > [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) > [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) > [But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/but-i-would-like-to-reach-the-point-where-i-could-cut-up-an/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65a/gerhard-richter-2249_artifice_but-i-would-like-to-reach-the-point-wher_2778256.jpg) > [Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/well-the-beginning-is-actually-quite-easy-because-i-can-still-be/) [Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d97/gerhard-richter-2249_airy_well-the-beginning-is-actually-quite-eas_3130857.jpg) ## Other authors on I can ## 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/i-can/gerhard-richter/#itemlist", "name": "15 I can Quotes By Gerhard Richter", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. 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But I can't believe in God, as such, he's either too big or too small for me, and always incomprehensible, unbelievable.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gerhard Richter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-believe-that-you-always-have-to-believe-it-s-the-only-way-after-all/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-believe-that-you-always-have-to-believ_545264.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-believe-that-you-always-have-to-believ_545264.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba8/gerhard-richter-2249_art_i-believe-that-you-always-have-to-believ_545264.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I believe that you always have to believe. 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I can't verbalize what I am working on: to me, it is many-layered by definition; it is what is more important, what is more true.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gerhard Richter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/nature-structure-there-is-no-more-to-say-in-my-pictures-i-reduce-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/gerhard-richter-2249_art_nature-structure-there-is-no-more-to-say_2748435.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/gerhard-richter-2249_art_nature-structure-there-is-no-more-to-say_2748435.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/gerhard-richter-2249_art_nature-structure-there-is-no-more-to-say_2748435.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. 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