Ideas Quotes by Gerhard Richter

9 Ideas quotes by Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter provides nine artistic reflections on ideas, each echoing his painter’s eye for form and abstraction.

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It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

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A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the…

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Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our…

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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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What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung…

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I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was…

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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…

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Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and…

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There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of…

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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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Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used…

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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 the greater…

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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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