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
goes-on paint brushes
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.
old-fashioned
I am ridiculously old-fashioned.
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.
full opposite
Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.
absent gray
Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.
concepts conducive lead names qualities success themes time variations
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.
built formed history
It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.
created dare great paintings understand work
I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'
condition destroying smear
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.
children facility interested music people seems stop
People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.