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Things Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious…
- The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no…
- Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and -…
- I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a…
- As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that…
- But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and…
- 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…
- The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state, that was very…
- 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.…
- Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making…
- A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the…
- Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so…
- Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.
- In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with…
- Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.
- I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou…
- I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.
- I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle