Gerhard Richter Thinking Quotations
Gerhard Richter Quotes about:
Thinking Quotes from:
- All Thinking Quotes
- Hillary Clinton
- Donald Trump
- Cassandra Clare
- C S Lewis
- Taylor Swift
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Stephen King
- Albert Einstein
- Terry Pratchett
- J K Rowling
- Marianne Williamson
- Rush Limbaugh
- Richelle Mead
- Haruki Murakami
- John Green
- Eckhart Tolle
- Henry David Thoreau
- Neil Gaiman
- Dalai Lama
-
Art Quotes
The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour - the ideal colour for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair. In other words, for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression.
-
Art Quotes
Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.
-
Art Quotes
... 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.
-
Art Quotes
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification: I see the motif, the way I painted it, is somehow ugly or unbearable. Then I try to follow my feelings and make it attractive. And that means a process of painting, changing or destroying - for however long it takes - until I think it has improved. And I don't demand an explanation from myself as to why this is so.