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Thinking Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Painting is another form of thinking.
- That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers…
- As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that…
- The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I…
- If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification:…
- 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…
- When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel…
- ... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,…
- In 1981, I think, for the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf. Before that I designed a mirror room for Kasper König's Westkunst show, but it was never…
- The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour -…
- 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…
- I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the…
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