Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

- Gerhard Richter

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

- Gerhard Richter

Painting is another form of thinking.

- Gerhard Richter

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

- Gerhard Richter

Art is the highest form of hope.

- Gerhard Richter

I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, …

- Gerhard Richter

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

- Gerhard Richter

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what la…

- Gerhard Richter

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

- Gerhard Richter