5 Quotes & Sayings By Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter was born in 1936 in Brühl, Germany. In 1956 he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne, where he studied painting with Heckel and Boesiger, drawing with Röttgen and painting with Brückner. In 1961 he traveled to Paris and then to Spain, where he lived for a year with his family in Madrid. In the United States he studied at the University of California in Los Angeles and in 1972 moved to New York Read more

He has been a professor at Hunter College since 1976, is a full professor emeritus since 2007, and teaches there part-time. He lives in Manhattan.

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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. Gerhard Richter
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Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in. Gerhard Richter
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We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster. Gerhard Richter
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Chance determines our lives in important ways. Gerhard Richter