Top 70 Gerhard Richter Quotes (2024 Update)
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Gerhard Richter Quote: “I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible.”

51. “I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.”

52. “With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “I am ridiculously old-fashioned.”

53. “I am ridiculously old-fashioned.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.”

54. “Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “It makes no sense to expect or claim to ‘make the invisible visible’, or the unknown known, or the unthinkable thinkable. We can draw conclusions about the invisible; we can postulate its existence with relative certainty. But all we can represent is an analogy, which stands for the invisible but is not it.”

55. “It makes no sense to expect or claim to ‘make the invisible visible’, or the unknown known, or the unthinkable thinkable. We can draw conclusions about the invisible; we can postulate its existence with relative certainty. But all we can represent is an analogy, which stands for the invisible but is not it.”

— Gerhard Richter

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

56. “Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw myself as a graphic artist. They became more important to me thanks to the exhibition, however, and I realized that these drawings were quite interesting after all.”

58. “Unlike the photography and prints, I never catalogued, kept track of or exhibited the sketches. I sold some occasionally, but never saw myself as a graphic artist. They became more important to me thanks to the exhibition, however, and I realized that these drawings were quite interesting after all.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.”

60. “I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “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.”

61. “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.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “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.”

62. “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.”

— Gerhard Richter

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

63. “I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich – it’s long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it’s interesting because it looks different each time.”

65. “The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich – it’s long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it’s interesting because it looks different each time.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “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.”

66. “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

Gerhard Richter Quote: “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.”

67. “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.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “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.”

69. “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.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “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.”

70. “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.”

— Gerhard Richter

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

71. “Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “It’s that same quality I’ve been talking about. It’s neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can’t be planned and it probably can’t even be described. It’s just good.”

72. “It’s that same quality I’ve been talking about. It’s neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can’t be planned and it probably can’t even be described. It’s just good.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.”

73. “A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.”

— Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter Quote: “My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.”

74. “My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.”

— Gerhard Richter

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

75. “I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.”

— Gerhard Richter

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