"In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything……" — Gerhard Richter
"In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was somewhere between art and garbage and that somehow seemed important to me and a pity to throw away. After a while, some sheets in the Atlas acquired another value, after all - that is, it seemed to me that they could stand on their own terms, not only under the protection of the Atlas."
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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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In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains…
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Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed…
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An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to…
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it…
— Andrew Carnegie
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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
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If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed…
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments,…
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You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as…
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In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being…
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Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that…
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