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Course Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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;…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour -…
- I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. I…
- You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly…
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