Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richteris a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth9 February 1932
CountryGermany
art believe painting
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.
art mean issues
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness.
self secret want
Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.
love-making paint plans
I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.
want sentiments humans
I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible
art laughing serious
Art should be serious, not a joke. I dont like to laugh about art.
style intention program
I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.
art believe paint
To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
jobs fun desire
I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.
firsts photograph artificial
To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.
information painting murder
The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.
art important identity
I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.
snapshots achieve states
Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.
levels able makers
What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level.