Latest Gerhard Richter Quotes from Interviews

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

  Gerhard Richter

  Long, Needs, Might

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

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

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Shows, Constructive

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

• I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.

  Gerhard Richter

  Law, Evil, Giving

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

• 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

  Art, Quality, Literature

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

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

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Transcendental, Mediums

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

• Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

  Gerhard Richter

  Dancing, Singing, Age

  Fuente: www.timeout.com

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