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Pictures 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…
- Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my…
- Family photos, pictures of groups, those are truely wonderful. And they are just as good as the old masters, just as rich and just as…
- As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They…
- Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us…
- 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;…
- My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or meaning, like objects…
- 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…
- I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement,…
- 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…
- I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this…
- I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a…
- The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even…
- I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. I…
- 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…
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- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. — David Bailey
- If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them… — Douglas Adams
- I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole… — Victoria Beckham
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
- A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies… — Jim Bishop
- I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs… — Usain Bolt
- A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. — Ray Bradbury
- Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids. I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm… — Kobe Bryant
- It's all about the light. Always face it, because that's how you give your face good angles. If you're outside when the… — Gisele Bundchen