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Picture Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
- 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…
- Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective…
- I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what you…
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is…
- 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…
- Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world;…
- Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so…
- I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.
- Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
- Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create…
More Picture Quotes
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to… — Dave Attell
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He… — Kevin Bacon
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- I start a picture and I finish it. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. — Ambrose Bierce
- I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing… — Bjork
- Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one… — Aeschylus
- Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus