Quotes About Gerhard

#1. Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

Amanda Hearst

#2. Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

Jerry Saltz

#3. When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

Wolfgang Tillmans

#4. My name is Gerhard Braun, and I am God.

Ted Dekker

#5. One can be addicted to either lawlessness or lawfulness. Theologically there is no difference since both break relationship with God, the giver. ~ GERHARD O. FORDE

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#6. I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you?

Shannon Hale

#7. I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

Gerhard Schroder

#8. Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.

Gerhard Richter

#9. Without form, communication stops ... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in.

Gerhard Richter

#10. It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

Gerhard Schroder

#11. Whatever contributes to the preservation of life is good; all that destroys life is evil.

Gerhard Domagk

#12. I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

Gerhard

#13. This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced ... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.

Gerhard Schroder

#14. A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.

Gerhard Richter

#15. Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.

Gerhard

#16. I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life)

Gerhard Richter

#17. To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

Gerhard Richter

#18. 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

#19. I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

Gerhard Richter

#20. 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

#21. The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed.

Gerhard Richter

#22. Gray is the color ... the most important of all ... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

Gerhard Richter

#23. The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

Gerhard Schroder

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

Gerhard Richter

#25. Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't want to talk about it, because I don't want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

Gerhard Richter

#26. I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.

Gerhard Richter

#27. I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

Gerhard Richter

#28. My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

Gerhard Schroder

#29. They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.

Gerhard Schroder

#30. If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

Gerhard Richter

#31. I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

Gerhard Richter

#32. 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

#33. People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.

Gerhard Richter

#34. We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

Gerhard Schroder

#35. I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

Gerhard Richter

#36. A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

Gerhard Schroder

#37. The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.

Gerhard Richter

#38. There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

Gerhard Schroder

#39. His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations.

Gerhard Roth

#40. 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

#41. The problem of chemotherapy of bacterial infections could be solved neither by the experimental medical research worker nor by the chemist alone, but only by the two together working in very close cooperation over many years.

Gerhard Domagk

#42. A rise in body temperature during sulphonamide treatment intensifies the biochemical reaction between drug and pathogen, while at the same time the heat itself injures the heat-sensitive gonococci.

Gerhard Domagk

#43. I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

Gerhard Richter

#44. Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.

Gerhard Richter

#45. The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.

Gerhard Schroder

#46. If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

Gerhard Schroder

#47. Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

Gerhard Richter

#48. What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this ... to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom.

Gerhard

#49. I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

Gerhard Richter

#50. We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

Gerhard Richter

#51. I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich.

Gerhard Richter

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

Gerhard Richter

#53. So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.

Gerhard E Frost

#54. Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can't be said but are always the most important.

Gerhard Richter

#55. I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close.

Gerhard Richter

#56. We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

Gerhard Schroder

#57. Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

Gerhard Richter

#58. Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust my feeling or capacity to find the right form for something. Even if that is only by being well organized. That too is form.

Gerhard Richter

#59. 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

#60. The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.

Gerhard

#61. You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and
knowledge.
There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

Gerhard

#62. Germany is very free-trade oriented.

Gerhard Schroder

#63. We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

Gerhard Schroder

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

Gerhard Richter

#65. Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in this manufacture of truth.

Gerhard Richter

#66. The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only thing that arouses interest, and the response to the pictures varies according to current political circumstance. I find this rather a distraction.

Gerhard Richter

#67. This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

Gerhard Schroder

#68. Chance determines our lives in important ways.

Gerhard Richter

#69. In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.

Gerhard Richter

#70. Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

Gerhard Schroder

#71. 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.

Gerhard Richter

#72. We are in this life as it were in another man's house ... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.

Gerhard

#73. 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.

Gerhard Richter

#74. 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.

Gerhard Richter

#75. Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

Gerhard Schroder

#76. If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.

Gerhard Zeiler

#77. 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

#78. Politicians are nauseating by definition ... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

Gerhard Richter

#79. Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

Gerhard Richter

#80. Any degree of unemployment worries me.

Gerhard Schroder

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

Gerhard Richter

#82. Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

Gerhard Richter

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

Gerhard Richter

#84. My paintings are wiser than I am.

Gerhard Richter

#85. We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

Gerhard Schroder

#86. But it is also untrue that I have nothing specific in mind. As with my landscapes: I see countless landscapes, photograph barely 1 in 100,000, and paint barely 1 in 100 of those that I photograph. I am therefore seeking something quite specific; from this I conclude that I know what I want.

Gerhard Richter

#87. We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.

Gerhard E Frost

#88. 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.'

Gerhard Richter

#89. To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

Gerhard Richter

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

Gerhard Richter

#91. The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.

Gerhard E Frost

#92. Thank you, World Screen, for regularly providing me with excellent articles on international media topics. For me, World Screen is an important means of information-well-structured and reader-oriented.

Gerhard Zeiler

#93. I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Gerhard Richter

#94. A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

Gerhard Schroder

#95. Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible.

Gerhard Richter

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

Gerhard Richter

#97. Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

Gerhard Schroder

#98. A comprehended God is no God at all!

Gerhard

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

Gerhard Richter

#100. As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

Gerhard Schroder