Gerhard Richter Quotes

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I think all art - even one as lowly as making jokes about celebrities - is there to make a connection.

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.

We, as pop stars, are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.

Formal art is essentially rational.

Pop art is for everyone.

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

Art needs to stand for something.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

All my works are games, serious game.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.