Gerhard Richter Quotes

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.

Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

You never know where you stand - and I like that. I like to be on edge.

I'm just confused. I can't read your signals. One moment you're hot, the next you're cold. You tell me you want me, you tell me you don't. If you picked one, that'd be fine, but you keep making me think one thing and then you end up going in a completely different direction. Not just now—all the time.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

To be constantly changing one's plans isn't decision at all-it's indecision.

The idle mind knows not what it wants.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes, but you're on your heels too, if you know what I mean.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

It doesn't matter because I want to be that guy who you never know what I'm going to wear.

I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.