"How could one be in this world without……" — Gerhard Richter
"How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread."
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150 Quotes by Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter has 150 quotes on this site.
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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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More Dismayed Quotes
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one of 46 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or…
— Richard Bach
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There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight…
— Pope John Paul II
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks…
— Anne Bancroft
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Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.
— Helen Keller
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Let the storm rage and the sky darken — not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as…
— Pope Pius X
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We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic,…
— Peter Medawar
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If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is…
— Martin Gardner
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The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store…
— William Christopher Handy
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What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his…
— Richard Bach
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Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky…
— Anne Bishop
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