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Different Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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:…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only…
- I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a…
- A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the…
- 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…
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — Rowan Atkinson
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough