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Work Quotes by Gerhard Richter
- Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
- Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make…
- Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by…
- 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…
- 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.…
- A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity…
- Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my…
- 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,…
- 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…
- And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white…
- Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do…
- I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never…
- I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. I…
- Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so…
- My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.
- Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
- I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle