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Photograph Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)
- Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity…
- But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and…
- Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination…
- The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way…
- 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…
- Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has…
- When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel…
- As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They…
- ... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,…
- But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000,…
- 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…
- Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these problems can only…
- When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality…
More Photograph Quotes
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
- Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
- A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
- Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams