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Form Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust…
- Art is the highest form of hope.
- My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untruthful,' I mean…
- Painting is another form of thinking.
- Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why…
- Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and -…
- 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 originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now…
- The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state, that was very…
- 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…
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- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood