Gerhard Richter Quotes
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.
Richter, Gerhard. The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings and Interviews 1962-1993. Edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, The MIT Press, 1995, p. 129.
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction.
