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
A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed… — 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… — 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 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
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
The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean… — 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
We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our… — 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
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
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
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
