Gerhard Richter Quotes

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

All art is but imitation of nature.

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.