Words matter. These are the best Gerhard Richter Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Gray is the color… the most important of all… absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.
It’s our culture, Christian history, that’s what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We’re just built that way.
I don’t believe in God.
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.
I can’t paint as well as Vermeer.
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.
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.’
I don’t think I can do this – painting under observation. It’s the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.
Politicians are nauseating by definition… They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.
I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.
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.
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
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.
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.
