"I like everything that has no style: dictionaries,……" — Gerhard Richter
"I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)"
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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 Dictionaries Quotes
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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old…
— Drew Barrymore
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be…
— John Marsden
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And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters,…
— Stephen Colbert
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for…
— William James
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The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days,…
— Joseph Epstein
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions…
— Gilbert Murray
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Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider…
— Kathleen Grissom
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We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few…
— Eric Hoffer
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