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Gerhard Richter Quotes: 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.


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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.

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



Art is the highest form of hope.

Art is the highest form of hope.



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.)



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.



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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It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

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Since I have never one a debate let me tell you how not to lose one.

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It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.

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