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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.

Gerhard Richter

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Gerhard Richter
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: February 9
Illustrator
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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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Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.
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If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
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Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint I love painting. It was something natural - as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting.
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When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.
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How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.
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To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
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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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To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.
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I pursue no intentions, no directions I have no program, no style and no mission.
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... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful, because I like to work from nature - although I do use a photograph - because I think that any detail from nature has a logic I would like to see in abstraction as well.
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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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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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I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means loss of immediacy. Something is missing then, though that is why I gave that up.
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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 is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.
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