Gerhard Richter Quotes

Truth is beauty

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

I admire natural, untouched beauty.

I have this obsession with pea pods. They're just really nice to look at. They can be perfect.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

Land really is the best art.

Beauty rests on necessities.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.