"Now that we do not have priests and……" — Gerhard Richter

"Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world."

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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…
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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