"As I see it, all of them -……" — Gerhard Richter
"As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that covers a lot of other things as well. I think there's an Informel element in Beuys, as well; but it all began with Duchamp and chance, or with Mondrian, or with the Impressionists. The Informel is the opposite of the constructional quality of classicism - the age of kings, or clearly formed hierarchies."
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Gerhard Richter
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150 Quotes by Gerhard Richter
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Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great…
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Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense.…
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Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We…
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are…
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Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding'…
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Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
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Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy…
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Art is the highest form of hope.
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My paintings are wiser than I am.
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To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words…
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I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note…
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Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid,…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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