Gerhard Richter Quotes

The more natural, the better.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I like real people. I like real things.

The people I enjoy most are the ones who don't stick to script.

I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

I find I don't need to be polished. I feel that you have to keep it real, and that's the best way to go.

I'm just flowing through, when I see things, I talk about 'em. And it's cool. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time.

It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.

What makes you attractive is being yourself, being natural, being unaware. Even though makeup is important, you should do it all, and then forget about it. You don't want to look like anyone else, any more than you want to be anyone else. You want to look like you. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery - but it's flattering to someone else. Not to you.