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To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.
Gerhard Richter
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Gerhard Richter
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: February 9
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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 pursue no intentions, no directions I have no program, no style and no mission.
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The year is always correct, also the month, only the day can be another. But that occurs to me only in the moment of writing it down.
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The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both in its way of informing, and in what it informs of, it is my source.
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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.
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If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.
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I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.
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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.
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The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only thing that arouses interest, and the response to the pictures varies according to current political circumstance. I find this rather a distraction.
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Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
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I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.
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In 1981, I think, for the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf. Before that I designed a mirror room for Kasper König's Westkunst show, but it was never built. All that exists is the design - four mirrors for one room.
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My paintings are wiser than I am.
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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.
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Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue their in-between shades and scales of brightness result in colour schemes containing 16, 64, 256 and 1,024 shades. More colours would be pointless because it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between them clearly.
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What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level.
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My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.
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To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.
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You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.
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Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.
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