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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'.”

Quote by Gerhard Richter

Book:Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

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Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting

Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting is a detailed chronicle of the works of the renowned German artist Gerhard Richter. The book delves into Richter's diverse artistic journey, highlighting his transition from abstract to figurative painting and his exploration of themes such as history, memory, and reality. It features a collection of his most significant works, accompanied by critical analysis and commentary. more

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Gerhard Richter

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. more

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“Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.”

Needs Art Despair Art Is Desperation Hopelessness

Author:Gerhard Richter

“You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.”

Dream Would Be Courses Individual Language Accepting Shame Compare Translate Dreams You Have Pictorial

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

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

“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.”

Thinking Knows Mean Art Artist Quality Greatness Painting Essentials Dimensions Works Of Art Motivated Great Work

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“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.”

Names Language Information Painting Aliens Interfere Emergence Factual

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“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.”

Knows Happens Loses Materials Goes On Mark Paint Brushes

Author:Gerhard Richter

“When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.”

Knows Reality Would Be Process Animal Tree Models Photograph Make Out

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.”

Writing Kind Ideas Kids Wanted Process Lonely Decades Teenager Things To Do Blogging

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“When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.”

Effort Representation Analogies

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

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

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

Persons Effort Painting Blind Desperate Abandoned Helpless Surroundings

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

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

“My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.”

Reality Wanted Painting Imitation Corresponding

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

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