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I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible By Gerhard Richter

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art. By Gerhard Richter

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all. By Gerhard Richter

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital. By Gerhard Richter

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.) By Gerhard Richter

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false By Gerhard Richter

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that. By Gerhard Richter

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way. By Gerhard Richter

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. By Gerhard Richter

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential. By Gerhard Richter

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act. By Gerhard Richter

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos. By Gerhard Richter

Gray is the color ... the most important of all ... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor. By Gerhard Richter

Art is the highest form of hope. By Gerhard Richter

Chance determines our lives in important ways. By Gerhard Richter

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures. By Gerhard Richter

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting. By Gerhard Richter

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. By Gerhard Richter

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper. By Gerhard Richter

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most. By Gerhard Richter

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. By Gerhard Richter

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God. By Gerhard Richter

My paintings are wiser than I am. By Gerhard Richter

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression. By Gerhard Richter

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things. By Gerhard Richter

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.' By Gerhard Richter

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself. By Gerhard Richter

All photographs are far more important than any painting. By Gerhard Richter

I can't paint as well as Vermeer. By Gerhard Richter

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. By Gerhard Richter

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture. By Gerhard Richter

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it. By Gerhard Richter

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. By Gerhard Richter

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. By Gerhard Richter

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea. By Gerhard Richter

I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission. By Gerhard Richter

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. By Gerhard Richter

How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread. By Gerhard Richter

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art. By Gerhard Richter

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make. By Gerhard Richter

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. By Gerhard Richter

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. By Gerhard Richter