"I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all."

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Source : Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.timeout.com. October 10, 2011.

Gerhard Richter

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“The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.”
“The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.”

Source : Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated
“Rather than, as an actor, I want the audience to like me, I'm going to smile beautifully and I've got everybody's sympathy - what about showing the moments when somebody is unbelievably petty? Or really selfish? The faults, the little things, those are the things that interested me about playing the character.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.”
“I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.”
“You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.”
“I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh”
“Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.”

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