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Making Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious…
- Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,…
- 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…
- I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never…
- 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…
- Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.
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- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
- No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. — Dean Acheson
- I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Teresa of Avila
- I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — Peter Ackroyd