Best Gerhard Richter Sayings
- This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own… Art
- I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means loss… Anonymous
- I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then I… Apply
- I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small,… Always Start
- If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification:… Act
- The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too.… Art
- Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by… Art
- It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock.… Art
- The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the… Any
- Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications.… Art
- Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that… Academy
- Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little… Art
- The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought about that because… Approach
- I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were… Actually Know
- I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I… All
- I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what you… All
- But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts… Already Now
- The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way… Absolute
- Suddenly, I saw it in a new way, as a picture that offered me a new view, free of all the conventional criteria I had… All
- I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is… Circumscribed
- 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 objectivity… Accordance
- Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has… All
- As a matter of fact, it was only through the dealer Fred Jahn that I succeeded in overcoming my reservation about the works on paper… Added
- Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my… Afford
- Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as… Art
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