When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.
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
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
It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea. - Gerhard Richter
It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.
Art is the highest form of hope. - Gerhard Richter
Art is the highest form of hope.
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
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. - Gerhard Richter
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
Painting is another form of thinking. - Gerhard Richter
Painting is another form of thinking.
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false - Gerhard Richter
I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
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
I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.
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
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…
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