Want Quotes by Gerhard Richter

9 Want quotes by Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter’s nine brief statements on wanting echo the layered complexity of his paintings. He captures the tension between form and feeling in a way that feels both abstract and grounded.

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I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

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Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont…

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Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't…

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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…

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When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to…

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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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I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized…

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I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it…

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I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to…

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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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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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