Gerhard Richter Quotes


I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement, death is leave-taking. And then ideologically: a leave-taking from a specific doctrine of salvation and, beyond that, from the illusion that unacceptable circumstances of life can be changed by this conventional expedient of violent struggle.


Citations

Richter, Gerhard. The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings and Interviews 1962-1993. Edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, The MIT Press, 1995, p. 198.

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Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter
  • Born: February 9, 1932
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Artist

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.