When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
In 1981, I think, for the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf. Before that I designed a mirror room for Kasper König's Westkunst show, but… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
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… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
