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Firsts Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making…
- The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle