"With a brush you have control. The paint……" — Gerhard Richter
"With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control."
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150 Quotes by Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter has 150 quotes on this site.
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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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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
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Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up, is extreme. There's a lot of…
— Sandra Bullock
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This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the…
— Prince Charles
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Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who…
— Jerry Pate
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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I can't even find the perfect brush so I can paint what's going through my mind. Racing 'gainst myself but…
— Drake
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Make your face not look like your face by piling on like the heaviest makeup you can find and do…
— Jenna Marbles
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If you can't move your brush good, just move your face.
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what…
— Hippolyte Taine
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The mind paints before the brush.
— James Ellis
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A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
— Joan Miro
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