People Quotes by Gerhard Richter

10 People quotes by Gerhard Richter

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Gerhard Richter’s ten statements treat people like brushstrokes on a canvas, each revealing a different hue of human experience. The collection feels like a brief exhibition, inviting viewers to pause and consider the subtleties of social life.

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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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Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what…

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That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced…

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My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or…

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There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so…

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Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was…

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People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop…

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But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know…

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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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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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Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

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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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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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