Art Quote by Gerhard Richter Download Open image “Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.” — Gerhard Richter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Despair Desperation Hopelessness Needs
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making. — John Currin Copy Share Image
There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way you work.… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that's how reality always is - it's this duality of being… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
“Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably… — Esther Verhoef Copy Share Image
I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
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… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
