"My paintings are wiser than I am." — Gerhard Richter

"My paintings are wiser than I am."

— 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.
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,…
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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