"Chance determines our lives in important ways." — Gerhard Richter
"Chance determines our lives in important ways."
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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
— Adam Arkin
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
— Jane Austen
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
— Paul Auster
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance…
— Oksana Baiul
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites…
— Ansel Adams
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be…
— Ernie Banks
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