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Them Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- 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…
- As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that…
- A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of…
- But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and…
- Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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;…
- 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…
- There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so crazy, for nothing.…
- The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only…
- What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any…
- 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…
- Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness…
- Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my…
- 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…
- 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…
- I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou…
- 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 Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster