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Wells Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust…
- As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that…
- It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock.…
- Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at…
- ... 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,…
- 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…
- 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.
- I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.
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