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- Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing…
- Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural -…
- 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…
- To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the…
- It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein…
- I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by…
- It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock.…
- The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the…
- 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 believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even my motivation for…
- 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…
- And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white…
- There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for…
- 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.…
- When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.
- What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any…
- 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…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale