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Gerhard Richter Quotes: I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.
         

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.


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I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.



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Art is the highest form of hope.



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

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



A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.



I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)



All photographs are far more important than any painting.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.



Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.



I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible



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

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



My paintings are wiser than I am.

My paintings are wiser than I am.





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