Gerhard Richter on Justice
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Gerhard Richter, catalogued under justice, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Gerhard Richter, entry #71115: "My works are not just rhetorical, except in the sense that all art is rhetorical. I believe in beauty."
Attributed to Gerhard Richter, entry #70714: "If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification: I see the motif, the way I painted it, is …"
3 Quotes by Gerhard Richter on Justice
"My works are not just rhetorical, except in the sense that all art is rhetorical. I believe in beauty."
"If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification: I see the motif, the way I painted it, is somehow ugly or unbearable. Then I try to follow my feelings and make it attractive. And that means a process of painting, changing or destroying – for however long it takes – until I think it has improved. And I don't demand an explanation from myself as to why this is so."
"Art's means of representing a thing – style, technique and the object represented – are circumstances of art, just as the artist's individual qualities are circumstances of art. Art can just as well be made in harmony with the circumstances of its making as in defiance of them. In itself art is neither visible nor definable: all that is visible and imitable is its circumstances, which are easily mistaken for the art itself."