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Good art in general aspires t...

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

Weeks go by, and I don't pain...

Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't want to talk about it, because I don't want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

I don't dare to think my pain...

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

We've lost these qualities, t...

We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

Art should be serious, not a ...

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

I have no time for specialize...

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

I'm still very sure that pain...

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

Now that we do not have pries...

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

A father draws boundaries and...

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

People won't stop painting, j...

People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

Without form, communication s...

Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

I go to the studio every day,...

I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

It's our culture, Christian h...

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

When I begin, theoretically a...

When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

Every museum is full of nice ...

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

I believe in painting and I b...

I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint, we have to live. Of course, there are different ways to survive. But it's my best option.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

I do not mistrust reality, of...

I do not mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing, but I am suspicious regarding the image of reality which our senses convey to us, and which is incomplete and limited. Our eyes have developed such as to survive. It is merely coincidence that we can see stars with them, as well.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

I don't know what motivated t...

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

The reason these paintings ar...

The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but because MoMA asked me, and because I consider it to be the best museum in the world.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

A lot of different things had...

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.

Gerhard Richter 154 quotes

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