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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 don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.
— Gerhard Richter
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)
— 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
Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.
— Gerhard Richter
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
When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.
— Wolfgang Tillmans
I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.
— Gerhard Richter
Gray is the color ... the most important of all ... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.
— Gerhard Richter
To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
— Gerhard Richter
To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.
— Gerhard Richter
Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.
— Gerhard Richter
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
— Gerhard Richter
I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.
— Gerhard Richter
My paintings are wiser than I am.
— Gerhard Richter
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.
— Gerhard Richter
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.
— Gerhard Richter
Art is the highest form of hope.
— Gerhard Richter
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.
— Gerhard Richter
I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.
— Gerhard Richter
Chance determines our lives in important ways.
— Gerhard Richter
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
— Gerhard Richter
They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.
— Gerhard Richter
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.
— Gerhard Richter
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
When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.
— Gerhard Richter
I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.
— Gerhard Richter
Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.
— Gerhard Richter
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
— Gerhard Richter
I can't paint as well as Vermeer.
— Gerhard Richter
All photographs are far more important than any painting.
— Gerhard Richter
I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.
— Gerhard Richter
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
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.
— Gerhard Richter
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.
— 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
I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.
— Gerhard Richter
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
— Gerhard Richter
How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.
— Gerhard Richter
I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.
— Gerhard Richter