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Visual Artist

German visual artist known for his unique painting style and diverse creative techniques. Richter's works span a wide range of styles from abstraction to figuration, and his career has spanned over half a century, profoundly influencing contemporary art.

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“To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.”

Believe Art Lost Paint Lost Art

Book:Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

Source: Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

“I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false”

Believe Kind Art I Believe Notes

Book:Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

Source: Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

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

Believe Has Beens I Believe Essentials Tasks Painter Quintessential

Author:Gerhard Richter

“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)”

Believe Art Real Motivation I Believe Natural Stupid Painting Meaning Of Life Old Fashioned Real Things Reactionaries Natural Things Motifs

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.”

Way Believe Different Use Reality Style Painting Clothes Don't Believe Disguise Different Styles

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.”

Needs Believe Art Feelings Reality Religious Ability Quality Pure Art Is Capacity Court Longing Disaster Ideology Realization Translate Outstanding Longing For God

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited, and that led us to believe that we could somehow distance ourselves from it and communicate a different intention.”

Believe Art Different Chance Powerful Messages Distance Intention Communicate Pops Optimistic Pop Art

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I can't believe in God, as such, he's either too big or too small for me, and always incomprehensible, unbelievable.”

Way Believe Art I Can Bigs I Believe Painting Believe In God Unbelievable Exhibitions

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false.”

Ifs Believe Art Reality Wanted Form I Believe Painting Fit Structure Colour Proportion Imitation Corresponding

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

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

Believe Art Might I Believe Painting Impression

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“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.”

Believe Wells Art Subjects Painting Paint Don't Believe

Author:Gerhard Richter

About the Author

Born: February 9, 1932
Known for: Visual Artist
Quotes: 157

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