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Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.
Gerhard Richter
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Gerhard Richter
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: February 9
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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.
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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.
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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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Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
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Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
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All photographs are far more important than any painting.
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Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.
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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.
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