Best quotes by Gerhard Richter on Painting

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• ‟ I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.

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• ‟ People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.

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• ‟ I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

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• ‟ I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint, we have to live. Of course, there are different ways to survive. But it's my best option.

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• ‟ I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

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