Academy Quote by Gerhard Richter

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

— Gerhard Richter

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

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

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

— Gerhard Richter

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

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

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

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

Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

— Gerhard Richter

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

— Gerhard Richter

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

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