Imagine Quote by Gerhard Richter Download Open image “I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.” — Gerhard Richter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagine Learning Long Long time Might Needs Painting Time
You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head. — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it. — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the… — Horace Pippin Copy Share Image
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I imagine explaining a work of art to my grandmother in five minutes, and if I can't explain it in five minutes, then it's… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and… — Yves Tanguy Copy Share Image
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness. — Eliza Bisbee Duffey Copy Share Image
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear.… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
We live in such a special time when literally anything we can think of is possible — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
