Shows Quotes by Gerhard Richter

9 Shows quotes by Gerhard Richter

Richter’s painterly eye translates into nine brief observations, where he examines performances through the lens of visual composition and abstraction.

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If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

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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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Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these…

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In 1981, I think, for the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf. Before that I designed a mirror room for Kasper König's Westkunst show, but…

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I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to…

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The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look…

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Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional…

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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.…

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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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They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take…

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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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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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