"That was a piece I did in 1963……" — Gerhard Richter
"That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers as an exhibition opening, but the people who came didn't know that it was to be a sort of Happening. I don't think it is quite right that it has become so famous anyhow. It was just a lot of fun, and the word itself, Capitalist Realism, hit just right. But it wasn't such a big deal."
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Gerhard Richter
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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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