"Of course I constantly despair at my own……" — Gerhard Richter
"Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial, initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it – although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing."
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150 Quotes by Gerhard Richter
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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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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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I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
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