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Reality Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
- I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.
- Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
- I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That…
- 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…
- My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.
More Reality Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov