“If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.” IfsKnowsImportantHardPlayChoicesChanceOriginalsArbitrary Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007 Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.” ArtChancePaintingFineArt IsAccidentsSensitiveArbitrary Book:Sommer: Words Source: Sommer: Words
“Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.” PersonsReasonValuesReligiousChanceSeeingClaimsFollowingPityAccustomedArbitraryReligious Values Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe