"I often need a long time to understand……" — Gerhard Richter

"I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make."

— Gerhard Richter

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150 Quotes by Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter has 150 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great…
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense.…
Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We…
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are…
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding'…
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy…
Art is the highest form of hope.
My paintings are wiser than I am.
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words…
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note…
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 Imagine Quotes

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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in… — Chinua Achebe
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. — Sri Aurobindo
I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car… — Joseph Barbera
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery,… — Mikhail Bakunin
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is… — James A. Baldwin
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting. — Javier Bardem
Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the… — Javier Bardem
I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine. — Lynda Barry
In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I… — Steven Adler

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