"My work has so much to do with……" — Gerhard Richter
"My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation."
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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 Corresponding Quotes
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
— Herbert Spencer
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act…
— Albert Einstein
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Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things…
— William Alcott
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Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!
— George W. Crane
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Whether the psychological effect of color is direct...or whether it is the outcome of association, is open to question. The…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall…
— Raymond Charles Barker
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Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is…
— Unknown Author
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In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before…
— Corinne Heline
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The points or tips of the chakras, where they connect to the main power current, are called the roots or…
— Barbara Brennan
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