The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the… — 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
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which… — 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
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
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
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
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
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. — 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
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
There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not… — 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
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
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
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
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
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
But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'... — Gerhard Richter Copy Share
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
