"I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great."

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Source : Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

Gerhard Richter

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“Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.”
“And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.”

Source : John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be tomorrow.”
“The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.”
“He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.”
“I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.”
“When we sing a song we give our soul a cuddle”
“Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.”

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