Gerhard Richter Quotes

• I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.

  Gerhard Richter

  Style, Want, Mastery

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.42, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Art is the highest form of hope.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Form, Art Is

  Gerhard Richter, Christine Mehring, Jeanne Anne Nugent, Jon L. Seydl (2010). “Gerhard Richter: Early Work, 1951-1972”, p.161, Getty Publications

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• Hablar de cuadros no sólo es difícil, sino quizá también inútil. Sólo se puede expresar con palabras lo que las palabras son capaces de expresar, lo que el lenguaje puede comunicar. La pintura no tiene nada que ver con eso.

  Gerhard Richter

  Painting, Language, Difficult

  "Gerhard Richter - Painting". Documentary, 2011.

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• Painting is another form of thinking.

  Gerhard Richter

  Thinking, Painting, Form

  "Gerhard Richter - Painting" (Documentary), 2011.

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• 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

  Reality, Abstract, Existence

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jun 07, 2013

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• I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

  Gerhard Richter

  Style, Intention, Program

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• I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a sharply focused image. A landscape painted with exactness forces you to see a determined number of clearly differentiated trees, while in a blurry canvas you can perceive as many trees as you want. The painting is more open.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Numbers, Tree

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Believe, Paint

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.86, The Museum of Modern Art

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• Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

  Gerhard Richter

  Arte, Gente, Importante

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Aug 06, 2015

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

  Gerhard Richter

  Ideas, Waiting, Danger

  "Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms". The New York Times Magazine, January 27, 2002.

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• 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

  Art, Writing, Years

  Gerhard Richter, Dieter Schwarz (1999). “Gerhard Richter Aquarelle, 1964-1997”

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• Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so a picture emerges that may look quite good for a while, so airy and colourful and new. But that will only last for a day at most, at which point it starts to look cheap and fake. And then the real work begins - changing, eradicating, starting again, and so on, until it's done.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Fake

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• My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least provide understanding. In other words, doing something I understand and that everyone understands. This natural desire for communication is also found in other domains, like reading and discourse, etc. I also hate repeating myself; it gives me no pleasure whatsoever. Once I've understood something, I need to start off on new ground.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Hate, Communication

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• 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

  Art, Trying, Painting

  Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.timeout.com. October 10, 2011.

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

  Gerhard Richter

  Believe, Essentials, Tasks

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• 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

  Witty, Art, Talking

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• My paintings are wiser than I am.

  Gerhard Richter

  Painting, Wiser

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• 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

  Art, Play, Judging

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from May 08, 2014

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

  Gerhard Richter

  Effort, Painting, Blind

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• 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. It demonstrates the endless multiplicity of aspects; it takes away our certainty, because it deprives a thing of its meaning and its name. It shows us the thing in all the manifold significance and infinite variety that preclude the emergence of any single meaning and view.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Views, Names

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• My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untruthful,' I mean the glorifying way we look at Nature. Nature, which in all its forms is always against us, because it knows no meaning, no pity, no sympathy, because it knows nothing and is absolutely mindless, the total antithesis of ourselves.

  Gerhard Richter

  Beautiful, Mean, Way

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Feb 26, 2016

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• To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as a fiction and grey as a visible, designated area of colour.

  Gerhard Richter

  Arte, Real, Medio

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• El arte no es una religión sustitutiva: es una religión (en el verdadero sentido de la palabra: "volver a atar", "atar" a lo incognoscible, trascender la razón, ser trascendente). Pero la iglesia ya no es un medio adecuado para ofrecer la experiencia de lo trascendental y hacer que la religión sea real, por lo que el arte ha dejado de ser un medio para convertirse en el único proveedor de religión, es decir, la religión en sí misma.

  Gerhard Richter

  Arte, Real, Medio

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• Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by multiplying these by two or four, I obtain a definite number of colour fields that I multiply yet again by two, etc. But the complete realization of this project demands a great deal of time and work.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Black And White, Two

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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.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Loss

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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