All Gerhard Richter Quotes
- But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have… All
- It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea. Danger
- How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread. Dismayed
- Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and -… Burbling
- Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by… Along
- Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… Art
- I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a… Art
- When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to… Ago
- Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity… Art
- To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the… Absence
- Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the… Amazed
- That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers… Announced
- I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now… Another Form
- Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only… Ability
- As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that… Action
- Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited,… American
- It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein… Art
- I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember,… Always Stayed
- It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't… Art
- A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of… Art
- But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and… All
- The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I… Across
- In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a… Accommodate
- Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination… Art
- I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures. Art