"It is a danger to wait around for……" — Gerhard Richter

"It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea."

— 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 Danger Quotes

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;… — Aristotle
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
Crying wolf is a real danger. — David Attenborough
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. — James A. Baldwin
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably… — Drew Barrymore
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I… — Clara Barton
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
The most dangerous people are the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the… — Kate Adie

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