Best Gerhard Richter Lines
- I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the… Art
- In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with… Alien
- With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen.… Brush
- When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality… Animal
- When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the… Analogies
- Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. Abandoned
- My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. Corresponding
- Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents… Art
- I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every… Almost Every
- Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different… Age
- I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just… Art
- Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. Art
- Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. Active
- I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou… All
- I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make. Imagine
- Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create… Bread
- I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most. Affect
- Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor. Absent
- I am ridiculously old-fashioned. Fashioned
- Chance determines our lives in important ways. Chance
- I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting. Been
- Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. Any
- Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. Almost Spiritual
- I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.… Achievement
- I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost,… Art
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