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„Anlaß oder besser Voraussetzung meiner neuen Bilder ist die gleiche wie bei fast allen anderen Bildern: daß ich nichts mitteilen kann, daß es nichts mitzuteilen gibt, daß die Malerei nie die Mitteilung sein kann, daß sich weder durch Fleiß, Trotz, Irrsinn noch durch sonstige Tricks die fehlende Botschaft von selbst nur so durch das Malen einstellen wird.“

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1977 in einem Brief an den Kunsthistoriker Benjamin Buchloh, zitiert nach F.A.Z., 23. Februar 2005, Nr. 45, S. 35. faz.net http://www.faz.net/s/RubEBED639C476B407798B1CE808F1F6632/Doc~E2FED6CF946DE42C5BA5257A82176DC15~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

„Ich mag alles, was keinen Stil hat: Wörterbücher, Fotos, die Natur, mich und meine Bilder.“

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BR online, 18. Februar 2009, br-online.de http://www.br-online.de/kultur/kunst/gerhard-richter-DID1234774188506/ausstellung-gerhard-richter-abstrakte-bilder-ID1234881035972.xml

„Da gehört vielleicht auch diese stereotype Frage dazu: "Was haben sie sich dabei gedacht?". Man kann sich nichts dabei denken, denn malen ist ja eine andere Form des Denkens. Das wäre genauso, wenn man Einstein fragt: "Was denken sie sich, wenn sie Gleichungen machen?". Der denkt sich nichts dabei, der rechnet.“

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“To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless, too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing, what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that... Painting is another form of thinking.”

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Quote, 1970's; from the documentary 'Gerhard Richter - Painting', Corrinna Belz, 2011
1970's

“Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God. We are well aware that making sense and picturing are artificial, like illusion; but we can never give them up. For belief (thinking out and interpreting the present and the future) is our most important characteristic.”

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undated quotes, The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings (1962-1993)

“Chance as a theme and as method. A method of allowing something objective to come into being; a theme for creating a simile (picture) of our survival strategy:
(1) The living method, which not only processes conditions, qualities and events as they chance to happen, but exists solely as that non-static 'process', and in no other way.
(2) Ideological: denial of the planning, the opinion and the world-view whereby social projects, and subsequently 'big pictures', are created. So what I have often seen as a deficiency on my part – the fact that I've never been in a position to 'form a picture' of something – is not incapacity at all but an instinctive effort to get at a more modern truth: one that we are already living out in our lives”

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life is not what is said but the saying of it, not the picture but the picturing Quotes from Notes, 1989; as cited on collected quotes on the website of Gerhard Richter: 'on Techniques' https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/quotes/techniques-5 1980's

“I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false.”

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Interview with Anna Tilroe, 1987; as cited on collected quotes on the website of Gerhard Richter: on 'Abstract paintings' https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/quotes/subjects-2/abstract-paintings-7 1980's

“The ones that weren't paintable were the ones I did paint. The dead. To start with, I wanted more to paint the whole business, the world as it then was, the living reality – I was thinking in terms of something big and comprehensive. But then it all evolved quite differently, in the direction of death. And that's really not all that unpaintable. Far from it, in fact. Death and suffering have always been an artistic theme. Basically, it's the theme. We've eventually managed to wean ourselves away from it, with our nice, tidy lifestyle... They [ Red Army Faction-members were not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail..”

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Quote from a conversation with Jan Thorn-Prikker concerning the '18 October 1977 cycle' [R.A.F.], 1989; as cited on the website of Gerhard Richter: on 'Baader-meinhof' https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/quotes/subjects-2/october-18-1977baader-meinhof-11 1980's

“I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random. And then, of course, I realized that it never can be random. It was all a way of opening a door for me. If I don't know what's coming – that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original – then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.”

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Quote from an interview with Sabine Schütz, 1990; as cited on collected quotes on the website of Gerhard Richter: on 'Abstract paintings' https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/quotes/subjects-2/abstract-paintings-7 1990's