Best Gerhard Richter Quotations
- When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel… Abstraction
- As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They… All
- Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at… Action
- Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us… Apprehend
- The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that… According
- If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. Abstract
- Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world;… All
- My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or meaning, like objects… All
- They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos. Art
- ... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,… Abstract
- The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state, that was very… Art
- Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in order to carry… All
- But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000,… Art
- I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That… Always Right
- These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even my motivation for… Art
- The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only thing that arouses… According
- I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement,… Art
- And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white… Act
- There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for… Art
- There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so crazy, for nothing.… Art
- Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do… Any
- I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random.… Abstract
- I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They… All
- The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only… Another Layer
- When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war. Art
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