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Important Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
- Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said,…
- In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a…
- I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.
- Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications.…
- 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.…
- Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw myself as a…
- 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 -…
- If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary…
- Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.
- Chance determines our lives in important ways.
- Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
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