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My Own Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make…
- 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…
- This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own…
- 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…
- 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…
- I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They…
More My Own Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman
- If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. — Kevin Bacon
- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene. — Christian Bale