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How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.
Gerhard Richter
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Gerhard Richter
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: February 9
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Gehede Lixite
Geruharuto Rihitā
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I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.
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I am ridiculously old-fashioned.
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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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Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail.
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Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness.
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The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour - the ideal colour for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair. In other words, for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression.
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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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If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
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Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.
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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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To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.
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I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I can't believe in God, as such, he's either too big or too small for me, and always incomprehensible, unbelievable.
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Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.
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I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.
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Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.
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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 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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As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They are totally painting (whatever that may mean). On the other hand, they are so like the photograph that the thing that distinguished the photograph from all other pictures remains intact.
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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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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.
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