"I don't mistrust reality, of which I know……" — Gerhard Richter
"I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed."
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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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More Circumscribed Quotes
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
— David Foster Wallace
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A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.
— Epicurus
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It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by…
— Andrea Dworkin
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There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a…
— Mary Church Terrell
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So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become…
— Victor Hugo
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